Letter 341: The entire speech has been delivered.

To Acacius. (358) The whole speech has been delivered, and there arose some uproar and applause, and the man for whom the speech was an adornment has resolved to send it to many parts of the earth; so greatly was he delighted with the gift. To me these things too were no small matter, but the greater thing did not come about. And this was that you should appear in the theater doing what you used to do, leaping forward ahead of the rest. So that, to Eusebius too, whenever a shout arose, I often exclaimed, "What would the present occasion be like if that man were here?"—so indeed I kept saying. But for these things I shall exact a penalty from you, whenever you yourself are engaged in speaking and I in casting the vote. And know that Titianus is alive, just as you would pray, and running—more ungoaded than the horse of Hieron. And what an excellent nature becomes, once it has taken on a desire for toil, judge for yourself. Of these matters Tuscianus too will come to you as a messenger, both a craftsman of speeches and a good judge, who, having come to him in the afternoon to demand back the consideration, departed full of admiration.

Ἀκακίῳ. (358) Δέδεικται μὲν ἅπας ὁ λόγος καί τις ἐγένετο θόρυβος καὶ κρότος, καὶ ὅτῳ κόσμος ἦν ὁ λόγος, πέμπειν αὐτὸν ἔγνωκε πολλαχοῖ τῆς γῆς· οὕτως ἥσθη τῷ δώρῳ· ἐμοὶ δὲ μικρὰ μὲν οὐδὲ ταῦτα, τὸ δὲ μεῖζον οὐκ ἐγένετο. τοῦτο δὲ ἦν ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ σὲ φαίνεσθαι ποιοῦντα ὅπερ εἰώθεις, προεκπηδῶντα. ὥστε καὶ πρὸς τὸν Εὐσέβιον, ὁπότε γίγνοιτο βοή, πολλάκις ἐφθεγγόμην῾· τί δ᾿ ἄν ἦν τὰ νῦν ἐκείνου παρόντος; δὲ δὴ λέγων. ἀ,λλὰ τούτων μὲν λήψομαι παρὰ σοῦ δίκην, ἐπειδὰν αὐτὸς μὲν ᾖς ἐν τῷ λέγειν, ἐγὼ δὲ ἐν τῷ ψηφίζεσθαι· τὸν δὲ Τιτιανὸν ἴσθι ζῶντα, ὡς ἂν εὔξαιο, καὶ θέοντα μᾶλ- λον ἀκέντητον ἢ τὸν Ἱέρωνος ἵππον. φύσις δὲ ἀρίστη προσ- λαβοῦσα πόνων ἐπιθυμίαν ὁπόσον τι γίγνεται, τεκμαίρου. τούτων δέ σοι καὶ Τουσκιανὸς ἄγγελος ἥξει λόγων δημιουρ- γός τε καὶ κριτὴς ἀγαθός, ὃς ἥκων ὡς αὐτὸν δείλης ἀπαιτή- σων τὸ σκέμμα ἀπέβη θαυμάσας.