Roman Letters: A Digital Corpus of Late Antique Correspondence

Themistius

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Someone came and reported that you had let fall some disparaging remark about me.

I was still saying to my friends, "What is this?

The wrongs being done to Cleobulus, who is my teacher and a friend to us both, and who is doing them -- he has...

Andronicus the poet [a contemporary poet praised by Libanius] won over the cities as far as Ethiopia, as one might...

May this pregnancy of yours produce heirs not only to your estate but also to your wisdom -- that wisdom you have...

If you wish to consider Olympius an excellent man, you will be right.

I do not congratulate you more on governing the city than I congratulate the city on handing you the reins.

When I have asked favors of you for others, I felt I was doing those people a kindness.