Letter 1032: A protection request for Thespesius' daughter, grounded in family friendship.

There was once a man from Heraclea, a truly inspired man, Thespesius: remarkable for speeches, for laws, and for being able to show cities prospering under his offices, as he showed your city. I myself saw him in Heraclea, an old man honored by the gods in old age with the birth of children, whom he left behind when he departed. One son has now gone as well, but a daughter lives. She is with us, yielding to certain considerations, and she will return to you when that is better. Since she has among you a neighbor able to cause pain and already causing it, she would prefer that he become gentler through you. Believing that you would undertake this trouble if she asked the favor through me, she mentioned a letter to me and immediately found me persuaded: out of respect for her, and out of confidence in you. Be now what you have often been, and help the child of Thespesius, who naturally became a friend of your father and often helped him, while in many matters he received him as a partner.