Letter 481: Malchos will report to you how things stand with us — both my health and my affairs.
To Silanus. (356)
Malchus will report to you how we are doing, both in body and in our affairs; and you, in view of these things, will take counsel concerning your own situation.
And yet, as for the things that have seemed best for a long time now, what need is there to keep deliberating about them? But all the same, I grant you to deliberate once more. For I know that one and the same course will appear both honorable and advantageous: that Silanus's skill be employed in Syria.
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Latin / Greek Original
Σιλανῷ. (356)
Ἀπαγγελεῖ σοι Μάλχος, ὅπως ἡμῖν ἔχει τό τε σῶμα καἰ
τὰ πράγματα σὺ δὲ πρὸς ταῦτα περὶ τῶν σαυτοῦ βουλεύσῃ.
καίτοι γε ἃ πάλαι δοκεῖ, τί δεῖ περὶ τούτων ἔτι σκοπεῖν;
ἀλλ’ ὅμως σοι δίδωμι βουλεύσασθαι πάλιν. οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι
ταὐτὸ φανεῖται καὶ καλὸν καὶ συμφέρον ἐν Συρίᾳ Σιλανοῦ
χρῆσθαι τῇ τέχνη.
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