Letter 5017: Whole cohorts of letters follow in the wake of your departure, and just as some people seek Athens for its schools...
Whole cohorts of letters follow in the wake of your departure, and just as some people seek Athens for its schools or the gymnasiums of the Muses, so your travels attract an admiring crowd.
And I don't imagine that a man blessed with the resources of high office finds it burdensome to host friends. So feed these scholars from the wealth of your position — and expect more guests soon, now that the traditional subsidies for Rome's teachers of youth have been cut off [a reference to the withdrawal of public funding for professors].
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Latin / Greek Original
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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