Letter 114: Hermeias's example makes Procopius more committed to adorning his own city.

When I saw your greatness through the letter you sent me, I rightly admired your mind, and I rejoiced with the city of the Berytians if it has put forward such a man: one who takes thought for virtue and for letters, even while the times drive in the opposite direction. May you benefit from yourself, and may the city benefit from your foresight. As for me, it is hard to overlook my own homeland after receiving an example from you. If you devise every means to adorn the city that bore you, how would it be right for me not to do the very things for which I praised you? And to adopt myself into a place that someone else has been fortunate enough to hold seems foreign to the order of reason. May you prosper, excellent friend, in your intention toward me and toward the city itself.

Ἑρμείαι Τὸ ὑμέτερον μέγεθος διὰ τῶν πρὸς ἐμὲ γραμμάτων ἰδὼν ὑμᾶς μὲν εἰκότως τῆς γνώμης ἐθαύμασα, τῇ δὲ Βηρυτίων συνήδομαι πόλει εἰ τοιοῦτον ἔχει προβεβλημένον, ὡς ἀρετῆς καὶ λόγων ποιεῖσθαι φροντίδα, καὶ ταῦτα τοῦ καιροῦ τὴν ἐναντίαν ἐλαύνοντος. ἀλλ' ὄναιο καὶ σὺ σαυτοῦ καὶ τῆς σῆς προνοίας ἡ πόλις. ἐμοὶ δὲ βαρὺ πατρίδος ὑπερορᾶν ἐξ ὑμῶν λαβόντι παρά δειγμα. εἰ γὰρ ὑμεῖς πάντα μηχανᾶσθε κοσμεῖν τὴν ἐνεγκοῦσαν οἰόμενοι, πῶς ἂν ἔχοι καλῶς ἐμοὶ μὴ ταῦτα ποιεῖν ἐφ' οἷς ὑμᾶς ἐπῄνεσα πράττοντας; ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰσποιεῖν ἐμαυτὸν εἰς τόπον ὃν εὐτύχησεν ἕτερος, τῆς λογικῆς καταστάσεως ἀλλότριον εἶναι δοκῶ. ἀλλ' εὐτυχοίης, ὦ ἄριστε, τῆς εἰς ἐμὲ καὶ τὴν πόλιν αὐτὴν προαιρέσεως.