Letter 10008: Your silence has been long enough that I write to break it from my end; the alternative is that we lose the habit...

Heliodorus is on his way to Italy, and along the route the finest thing on earth will come into his view -- your city.

You yourself will judge whether I have added anything in the way of learning to the young men whom you have sent. I hope that this addition, however little it be, will get the credit of being great, for the sake of your friendship towards me. But inasmuch as you give less praise to learning than to temperance and to a refusal to abandon our soul...

Truly when I read your excellency's letter I felt unwonted pleasure and cheerfulness; and when I met your well-beloved sons, I seemed to behold yourself. They found me in the deepest affliction, but they so behaved as to make me forget the hemlock, which your dreamers and dream mongers are carrying about to my hurt, to please the people who have...

You seem to have forgotten the state of both my mind and my body if you actually expected to see me among the...

I believe my letter has reached you and that yours will reach me, and even before receiving it I take pleasure in my...