Letter 27: If you hold the virtue of philosophy in esteem, you will honor it not only in the living but also in the dead.

Synesius of CyreneConstans|c. 409 AD|Synesius of Cyrene
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Letter 27: A Recommendation

[1] To Constans

If you hold the virtue of philosophy in esteem, you will honor it not merely in those of the present day who have their share in it, but also in those who are dead and gone. The divine Amyntianus, for a time once with us, has obtained a better lot, and is, I think, present, though he appears to be absent. [2] A near relation of this man, his own cousin, is being attacked by your own Soterichus. Show a little interest yourself in behalf of Dionysius, and Soterichus will immediately stop attacking him.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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