Letter 351
To Parnasios. (358 AD)
I have the son I was looking for — your son — and one well suited to receive what he has come for. When I tested the young man and put his natural ability to the proof, I found him quick to seize upon the paths of rhetoric.
I said to Achillios — a man from Ancyra who has fulfilled his duties to his homeland and is here now for his only son — I said to him: "Parnasios will be the father of a fine orator."
The things you reminded us of, going through those school days and the speeches at Ancyra — I was already telling them to my son before I had even read your letter. He said that what he had heard was engraved in his memory.
Such is my remembrance of those who drank from the same bowl [fellow students], especially Galatians, who always get something extra from me. So you are sending your family from home to home, and you need not urge me to attend to your affairs — I should be the one prompting you to look after your own.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.