Letter 466
Libanius→Hierocles|libanius
To Hierocles. (355/56)
While you have leisure, attend to your land and to a builder, so that when you return to public service you may have resources from your estates. The men's hall needs to be adorned with Laconian marble, and one must look elsewhere for the rest of the decoration.
Ἱεροκλεῖ. (355/56)
Ἕως ἡσυχάζειν ἔστι σοι, γῆς φρόντ ζε καὶ οἰκοδόμου, ὅπως,
ἐπειδὰν αὖθις εἰς τὸ δοκιμάζειν ἀφίκῃ, παρὰ τῶν ἀγρῶν
εὐπορῇς. τὸν δὲ ἀνδρῶνα δεῖ μὲ1 κοσμῆσαι xa Λακωνικῷ
λίθῳ, δεῖ δὲ ζητεῖν τὸν ἄλλοθεν κόσμον.
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To Hierocles. (355/56)
While you have leisure, attend to your land and to a builder, so that when you return to public service you may have resources from your estates. The men's hall needs to be adorned with Laconian marble, and one must look elsewhere for the rest of the decoration.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.