Letter 414: Your sons are enduring the labors that summer demands at Daphne [the famous pleasure suburb of Antioch], and I have...
To Eupator.
Your sons are working through the labors that the summer prescribes at Daphne, since we have granted this, so that trees and waters and breezes may be a consolation for their toil. If, then, anyone slanders them on account of the place, let his deed mark him out as a false accuser.
My judgment on each of these matters the bearer of this letter will tell you, the man through whom I count both you and your sons fortunate. For Olympius, the best of all men on earth, has a care for your household.
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Latin / Greek Original
Εὐπάτορι. (355)
Οἱ παῖδές σου τοὺς πόνους οὓς ὁρίζει τὸ θέρος ἐν τῇ
Δάφνῃ διαντλοῦσιν ἡμῶν τοῦτο ἐφιέντων, ὅπως ᾖ τῷ πονεῖν
παραμύθιον δένδρα καὶ ὕδατα καὶ αὖραι. ἢν οὖν τις αὐτοὺς
διαβάλλῃ τῷ τόπῳ, συκοφάντης δοκείτω τῷ ἔργῳ.
τὴν δ’
ἐφ’ ἑκατέρῳ γνώμην ἐμὴν ὁ φέρων σοι τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἐρεῖ,
δι᾿ ὃν εὐδαίμονα σέ τε ἡγοῦμαι καἰ τοὺς υἱεῖς. τῷ γὰρ ἀρίστῳ
τῶν ἐπὶ γῆς Ὀλυμπίῳ τῆς σῆς οἰκίας μέλει.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern libanius retranslated v1.
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