Priscianus

correspondent of Libanius; probable provincial official in the Roman East|Antioch
Priscianus is known chiefly as a correspondent of the rhetorician Libanius of Antioch, who addressed at least 21 surviving letters to him in the second half of the 4th century AD. The name belongs to a man within Libanius's wide network of educated officials and notables in the Roman East; the letters suggest he held administrative or governmental responsibilities in the Syrian provinces and was the kind of cultivated functionary to whom Libanius regularly wrote on behalf of friends, students, and civic interests. Beyond this epistolary record he is otherwise little attested, and specific dates, offices, and biographical details cannot be securely reconstructed from the correspondence alone.
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Letters received
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Total letters
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All letters (21)

From Libaniusc. 316 AD

You know better than most what it means to run a school in times like these.

libanius #15
From Libaniusc. 325 AD

When I first heard you'd gone all the way to the Danube itself, where the emperor displayed his arms and humbled the...

libanius #121
From Libaniusc. 326 AD

I have many reasons to respect Mocimus: he's been a friend since childhood, he never shrank from any task my uncle...

libanius #132
From Libaniusc. 327 AD

You asked me whether I expect you to master your responsibilities.

libanius #138
From Libaniusc. 327 AD

Miccalus comes to you from Olympius, from home to home -- and from one brother to another, in every real sense.

libanius #145
From Libaniusc. 328 AD

Theodotus and Charisius are brothers, and their profession is the same.

libanius #148
From Libaniusc. 328 AD

So you will not collect taxes twice, yet you keep asking for letters on matters about which you already have...

libanius #156
From Libaniusc. 330 AD

That you, surrounded by so many responsibilities and pricked by anxieties about the war, still take thought for how...

libanius #169
From Libaniusc. 330 AD

You know Gaudentius, that excellent teacher.

libanius #170
From Libaniusc. 330 AD

Now you are truly absent from us, since you have taken away the man who imitated you.

libanius #175
From Libaniusc. 333 AD

You ask how things stand with us, and I wish I could report only good news.

libanius #203
From Libaniusc. 334 AD

You will have heard the latest attacks on our profession -- the usual complaints from people who think that because...

libanius #211
From Libaniusc. 336 AD

I know. "Why do you tell me what I already know?

libanius #233
From Libaniusc. 336 AD

You received Maran kindly -- that is one favor I have already collected.

libanius #240
From Libaniusc. 338 AD

Lucianus, a man not blessed in everything, did not dare to approach me himself -- so thoroughly did he condemn what...

libanius #252
From Libaniusc. 339 AD

The son of the man bringing this letter is a student of mine.

libanius #262
From Libaniusc. 341 AD

Leontius is still carrying letters on the same subject.

libanius #286
From Libaniusc. 342 AD

The man who brings this letter is trustworthy and deserves your attention.

libanius #298
From Libaniusc. 373 AD

While others asked those arriving from there all manner of questions — "What of the Arcadians?

libanius #620
From Libaniusc. 373 AD

You know Maeonius the copyist.

libanius #624
From Libaniusc. 374 AD

Even if your office and the demands pulling you from every direction have driven Plato from your hands, Plato still...

libanius #638