3 surviving letters between Ierakios and Libanius, spanning 357-386 AD.
"To one the god gave one thing, but denied another," someone said of a man who prayed for two things.
Your daughter's son is everything a grandfather could wish for: a lover of learning, no lover of physical pleasures,...
Such has Diophantus been since boyhood: self-controlled, fair-minded, industrious, pleasing to the best men.