To Clematius. (357)
This Rhetorius was our student, while I attended his father's classes. Through the father, I came to know the poets; through me, the son came to know the orators. He knows the nature of my feelings for you and yours for me, since he shared my time in Bithynia and makes it his business to know everything about my affairs.
He is now heading to Egypt to collect a small inheritance from his father's side -- that is where his father came from. But really, he was drawn to the journey by the fact that you govern Palestine. A man you would have been glad to meet just from hearing he was my student -- where will you rank him when he is brought to you by my own letter?
This Rhetorius was our student, while I attended his father's classes. Through the father, I came to know the poets; through me, the son came to know the orators. He knows the nature of my feelings for you and yours for me, since he shared my time in Bithynia and makes it his business to know everything about my affairs.
He is now heading to Egypt to collect a small inheritance from his father's side -- that is where his father came from. But really, he was drawn to the journey by the fact that you govern Palestine. A man you would have been glad to meet just from hearing he was my student -- where will you rank him when he is brought to you by my own letter?
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.