Aristainetus; and separately to Silanus

This record conflates two distinct recipients of Libanius of Antioch (the great 4th-century AD rhetorician and letter-writer), the principal being Aristaenetus. Aristaenetus was a cultivated imperial official and one of Libanius's dearest friends, a man of letters whom Libanius praised for his learning and integrity; he perished in the catastrophic earthquake that destroyed Nicomedia in 358 AD, a loss Libanius mourned in a celebrated monody (Oration 61) and recalled with grief in his autobiography (Oration 1). The second name, Silanus, is otherwise obscure and known only as an addressee within this same correspondence; nothing reliable can be said of him beyond his appearance in Libanius's letters.