Letter 5017: Whole cohorts of letters follow in the wake of your departure, and just as some people seek Athens for its schools...
Sequuntur abscessum tuum litterarum cohortes, et ut solent Athenas Atticas aliqui
vel gymnasia petere Musarum, ita peregrinationes tuas desiderio trahente comitantur.
nec tibi, ut aestimo, militiae stipendiis adfluenti amicorum conventus onerosus est.
pasce igitur eruditos dignitatis tuae copiis et spera plures actutum tibi hospites adfutu-
10 ros, postquam liomanae iuventutis magistris subsidia detracta sunt sollemnis alimoniae.
XXXVI (XXXTTTT) a. 382—383.
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