Letter 88: Some letters dated last spring have just arrived from Thrace.

Synesius of CyrenePylaemenes|c. 401 AD|Synesius of Cyrene
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Letter 88: A Lost Friend

[1] To Pylaemenes

Some letters dated last spring have just come to me from Thrace . I turned the whole bundle upside down, to see whether it would contain one upon which the famous name of Pylaemenes might be written. It would indeed have been unworthy of me to read any other first, but there were none anywhere. [2] If you are really away from home, I wish you a quick and happy return. But it you were still on the spot at the moment when all my friends gave their letters to Zosimus, it really would be surprising if any one has more mindful of me than Pylaemenes.

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

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