Letter 10015: I have been asked to use my influence in a matter that touches your interest as well as mine; I raise it here...

(A letter of recommendation for Eudoxius a Rhetorician for whom Gregory had a warm regard.) To honour a mother is a religious duty. Now, different individuals have different mothers; but the common mother of all is our country. This mother you have honoured by the splendour of your whole life; and you will honour her again now by obtaining for m...

The date of the following letter can be determined within very narrow limits.

Under any ordinary circumstances I should have lacked courage to intrude upon your excellency, for I know how to gauge my own importance and to recognise dignities. But now that I have seen a friend in a distressing position at having been summoned before you, I have ventured to give him this letter. I hope that by using it, as a kind of propiti...

I have loved and admired you since those days when Klematios — that man who, after a just life, met an unjust end —...

As long as you are alive and watching over Bithynia, the province can triumph through its men — for no one else...