Letter 63: One should use the friendship of the powerful, but not abuse it.
Synesius of Cyrene→Joannes|c. 407 AD|Synesius of Cyrene
friendship
Letter 63: A Warning
[1] To Joannes
One should use the friendship of the great, but not abuse it.
Letter 63: A Warning
[1] To Joannes
One should use the friendship of the great, but not abuse it.
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Letter 63: A Warning
[1] To Joannes
One should use the friendship of the great, but not abuse it.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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