Letter 292
Libanius→Cyrillus|libanius
To Cyrillus. (360/361)
We know how well you treated Alexander -- for the man who benefited did not hide it. I was pleased both that he was helped and that he is a good man who acknowledges the favor. A man like that naturally deserves to receive the same treatment always, since having received it, he knows how to say that he received it.
Κυρίλλῳ. (360/61)
Ἴσμεν ὅσα τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον εὖ ἐποίησας· οὐ γὰρ ἔκρυψεν
ὁ εὖ παθών. ἥσθην οὖν, ὅτι τε ὠφέληται καὶ ὅτι χρηστός
ἐστιν ὁμολογῶν τὴν χάριν. τὸν δὴ τοιοῦτον τῶν αὐτῶν εἰκὸς
διὰ τέλους τυγχάνειν· λαβὼν γὰρ οἶδεν ὡς ἔλαβε λέγειν.
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To Cyrillus. (360/361)
We know how well you treated Alexander -- for the man who benefited did not hide it. I was pleased both that he was helped and that he is a good man who acknowledges the favor. A man like that naturally deserves to receive the same treatment always, since having received it, he knows how to say that he received it.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.