Letter 183
To Stratonianus. (359/60)
This was the reward of our homecoming: to meet old classmates, to exchange stories from the old days, and through memory to feel as though we were back in the midst of those experiences.
I have had this pleasure with the excellent Theodotus, and I count these days among my festivals. My affection for the man only grew when I learned that he is fond of your household.
In fact, his first words to me were questions about your son. He would not leave until he had tested the young man, challenging him to wrestle with some passages of Homer. The boy rose to it without a moment's hesitation. Theodotus will tell you the rest himself, and he will neither willingly nor unwillingly deceive you -- he honors the truth and is steeped in rhetoric.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.