Letter 225: Your point about the kinship of our professions is well taken.

To Ammianus. (360?) To help those who come from us to you is the mark of both a good man and a friend. But to send them away glad yet without a letter is not the mark of a caring friend. Altogether...

Ἀμμιανῷ. (360?) Τὸ μὲν ὠφελεῖν τοὺς παρ’ ἡμῶν ὡς σὲ ἰόντας καὶ χρη- στοῦ καὶ φίλου, τὸ δὲ χαίροντας ἄνευ γραμμάτων ἀποπέμπειν οὐ κηδομένου φίλου, πάντως δὲ ἀργοῦ. δεῖ δέ σε κατ’ ἄμφω γράφειν, καὶ βοηθοῦντα καὶ μή, ἕνα νῦν μὲν μὴ τὸ μεῖζον δι- δοὺς φθονῇς τοῦ δευτέρου, νῦν δὲ ἀντὶ τοῦ μείζονος παραμυ- θῆται τὸ δεύτερον. ἀλλ’ Ἡρακλείδης οὑτοσὶ καὶ τυγχανέτω προνοίας καὶ κομιζέτω γράμματα. δίκαιος δὲ εἶ συλλαβεῖν ἀνδρὶ φίλῳ Καβειρίου. Καβείριος δὲ οἷς ἐκήδευσεν οἶσθα. εἰ δὲ καὶ μισθὸν τελέσαι δεῖ, πολλὰ ἄν σοι διηγήσαιτο περὶ τοῦ Νείλου. καὶ τί ἂν μεῖζον Ἀμμιανὸς ζητοίη;