Maximos

Μαξίμῳ

correspondent of Libanius (probably an official or provincial notable in the late-4th-century Roman East)|Antioch (milieu of Libanius's correspondence)
Maximus (Greek Maximos) is known here only as a recipient of letters from the sophist Libanius of Antioch, who taught rhetoric there for much of the second half of the fourth century AD. The name was extremely common in late antiquity, and Libanius corresponded with several different men called Maximus, so this correspondent cannot be securely identified with any one figure; he was most likely an educated official, governor, or provincial notable of the Greek-speaking eastern provinces, of the sort who made up much of Libanius's epistolary network. Beyond what can be inferred from the fifteen letters addressed to him, nothing is independently attested about him.
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All letters (15)

From Libaniusc. 345 AD

It is simply not right that the dependents of Tiberinus should suffer — a man excellent in every way, who introduces...

libanius #333
From Libaniusc. 347 AD

If you do not help those I recommend, that is not the Greek way.

libanius #353
From Libaniusc. 375 AD

Eudikios is said to have grieved only briefly for his father, and the reason is said to be you — you who removed...

libanius #640
From Libaniusc. 376 AD

In your anger at Karterios you have done something pleasing to the Muses and all the gods of eloquence — for he,...

libanius #650
From Libaniusc. 379 AD

Stop saying great things about small matters — my letters.

libanius #681
From Libaniusc. 379 AD

What I would have done for Socrates, had I lived in Socrates' time, when the beasts were upon him — three sycophants...

libanius #687
From Libaniusc. 385 AD

I am not introducing these doctors to you as strangers — I write on behalf of men already known to you, and loved...

libanius #753
From Libaniusc. 386 AD

This Achillius was my fellow student, and his son is being raised under my care — a boy of a lively nature who knows...

libanius #759
From Libaniusc. 387 AD

Everything about you is fine, beginning with your very appearance — or rather, beginning from your very soul.

libanius #771
From Libaniusc. 388 AD

Add the excellent Pompeianus to the roster of our friends.

libanius #782
From Libaniusc. 390 AD

Sufficient reward for me is that Hyperechius is the sort of man to be declared, while you are still living, master...

libanius #797
From Libaniusc. 390 AD

Hyperechius claimed he made this journey on behalf of his brother, but it turned out he came more on your behalf...

libanius #800
From Libaniusc. 391 AD

"I ask for Arcadia — a great thing I ask.

libanius #806
From Libaniusc. 392 AD

This Aeneas is not a man of rhetoric, nor of wealth, nor of any other kind of power — unless one calls fairness and...

libanius #822
From Libaniusc. 393 AD

You add deeds to hopes, noble Maximus — or rather, your deeds have surpassed our hopes.

libanius #826