Letter 487: The longer a wrong goes unaddressed, Ammonios, the harder it becomes to address.

To Archontius, concerning the same matter: The impious Gigantius, who laid a plausible false accusation against the wretched farmers, alleging theft of certain taxes and tribute, and who aggravated the census of Augustus -- though it was already most burdensome for them -- having long ago persuaded the ruler to attend to him as one speaking truth, and having become the cause of disasters for the villagers, has now come to Thrace again, seeking to put on the governorship. You know how many he scattered into flight by his census-taking, and how many exchanged their ancestral freedom for grasping the mattock and the hoe. Take care, then, that he not seize the governorship again and reduce everyone to Cappadocians, whose life consists of nothing other than servitude and farming.