Demetrius

correspondent of Libanius|Antioch (milieu of Libanius)
Demetrius is known as a recipient of letters from Libanius, the celebrated rhetorician and teacher of Antioch (314-c.393 AD), whose vast correspondence preserves the names of hundreds of officials, students, friends, and notables across the 4th-century Greek East. Several men named Demetrius appear in the Libanian corpus, and figures bearing this very common name are difficult to distinguish with certainty; the addressee here is otherwise little attested independently and is known chiefly through this correspondence. Like most of Libanius's correspondents, he was probably a member of the educated provincial elite (a curial, official, or former pupil) active in the Roman East during the second half of the fourth century. No secure dates, offices, or biographical details can be assigned to him beyond his appearance as one of Libanius's addressees.
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Letters received
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From Libaniusc. 316 AD

The young man did not come to me without thinking it through.

libanius #19
From Libaniusc. 316 AD

It was only right that your brother should be honored in this way by you and my friend by me.

libanius #26
From Libaniusc. 317 AD

I mourned for the city itself -- the one I was so glad to see, which I left unwillingly, and which I longed for even...

libanius #29
From Libaniusc. 317 AD

Pindar says somewhere that he is the guardian of golden apples, that they belong to the Muses, and that he...

libanius #32
From Libaniusc. 318 AD

When an enemy renders such a verdict about me, then I will consider it worth taking pride in -- since it would mean...

libanius #43
From Libaniusc. 319 AD

Well, the islander has done the right thing and fulfilled his obligations.

libanius #53
From Libaniusc. 323 AD

Your commands delighted me; your fear of imposing on me did not.

libanius #105
From Libaniusc. 325 AD

Just as I'm enjoying the hospitality gifts you sent, so I'll make use of your letter's opening.

libanius #124
From Libaniusc. 326 AD

Here's how it happened: Hermogenes didn't slam the door shut like some savage -- he just fell idle.

libanius #134
From Libaniusc. 331 AD

Your fine friend Bacchius has been separated from you and has not spent nearly enough time with me.

libanius #182
From Libaniusc. 331 AD

Nothing from you is small, precisely because it comes from you.

libanius #184
From Libaniusc. 332 AD

Nothing from you is small, because it comes from you.

libanius #198
From Libaniusc. 336 AD

Well, the dreams did a fine job of prompting you -- though I know perfectly well you would have done the same thing...

libanius #239
From Libaniusc. 337 AD

You do not give me a chance to ask for anything -- you who send everything before being asked.

libanius #243
From Libaniusc. 338 AD

Your letters are themselves a festival -- as is everything that arrives from you.

libanius #254
From Libaniusc. 339 AD

The young men you sent are a credit to your city and to their fathers, and they have shown themselves worthy of the...

libanius #267
From Libaniusc. 340 AD

I displayed both speeches -- both of them in full: the recent combative one and the older laudatory one.

libanius #279
From Libaniusc. 342 AD

I need nothing from you but your letters.

libanius #299
From Libaniusc. 343 AD

Do not think my silence means I have forgotten you.

libanius #307
From Libaniusc. 358 AD

Domnus has done me three favors right around the festival of the goddesses: he gives you the means to write, he...

libanius #46
From Libaniusc. 364 AD

Many blessings on Bacchius, who is both fine himself and a lover of fine things.

libanius #523