Letter 2065: The preparation for my consulship keeps me busy with joyful and fortunate obligations.

The preparations for the consulship occupy me indeed with auspicious and happy business; but, as your letters frequently give sign, your concern on my behalf outweighs my own. You exhort, you admonish, you compel me to hasten whatever the discharge of so eminent a magistracy requires; and although you are the exactor of my diligence, you nonetheless claim everything for your own solicitude. Will there be the longed-for time in which, bound by equal services on your behalf, I may match that disposition of yours? I hope that presently, with the commonwealth flourishing and the principate of our lord Theodosius extended into the ages, your virtues will be rewarded with the fasces [the consular insignia]. Then I shall not require the goads of letters, nor shall I await an admonisher; for from you I have learned to undertake of my own accord whatever must be cared for on a brother's behalf.