To Acacius. (361?)
In other things I would yield to you, but in this contest I won long ago by doing what a friend should -- back when you were raising every kind of outcry so as not to be stripped of these things, while I, having been stripped of mine, kept silent.
But I think you are also aware of the sequel, in which I praised you while everyone praised me -- because I championed you and your contests. You sent your letter first, but I wrote mine. If one was hasty and the other slow, that is not how true feeling should be judged.
How I received the admirable Eutropius -- learn that from him, along with what I was planning to do and how I was overcome by Eubulus. For Eubulus, I think, must prevail in everything.
In other things I would yield to you, but in this contest I won long ago by doing what a friend should -- back when you were raising every kind of outcry so as not to be stripped of these things, while I, having been stripped of mine, kept silent.
But I think you are also aware of the sequel, in which I praised you while everyone praised me -- because I championed you and your contests. You sent your letter first, but I wrote mine. If one was hasty and the other slow, that is not how true feeling should be judged.
How I received the admirable Eutropius -- learn that from him, along with what I was planning to do and how I was overcome by Eubulus. For Eubulus, I think, must prevail in everything.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.