Letter 528: This man Artemon is a fellow citizen of mine but was the student of others.

To Domninus. (356) This Artemon is a fellow-citizen of mine, but a pupil of others. And as for this matter of "others," there was no time when he did not find fault with it. It came about that he kept company with others, while he was in love with us, partly because of the occasion, partly because of fortune, and partly because those from whom he wished to obtain his desire did not grant it when he was about to set sail. He is ranked, then, by us among those who have heard us, since he came to hold the same opinion toward us as those who are with us hold. So when he came to me and said where he was going to travel and for what purpose, I both praised him and joined in his prayers and pointed out to him the harbor. I, then, have repaid the young man by sending him to the one to whom it was fitting; but you, teach him the same things you teach the others, yet regard him more kindly than the others, so that it may be known to all how great my standing is with you.

Δομνίνῳ. (356) Ἀρτέμων οὗτος πολίτης μέν ἐστιν ἐμός μαθητὴς δὲ ἑτέρων. τοῦτο δὲ τὸ ἑτέρων οὐκ ἔστιν ὅτε οὐκ ἐμέμψατο. συνέβη δὲ αὐτῷ συνεῖναι μὲν ἄλλοις, ἡμῶν δὲ ἐρᾶν, τὰ μὲν καιροῦ, τὰ τὰ δὲ τύχης, τὰ δὲ τοῦ μέλλειν ἀπαίρειν οὐ δόντων ὧν ἐπεθύμει τυχεῖν. τάττεται οὖν ὑφ’ ἡμῶν ἐν τοῖς ἀκη- κοόσιν ἡμῶν, ἐπειδὴ γνώμην ἔσχεν εἰς ἡμᾶς ἣν οἱ μεθ’ ἡμῶν. ὡς οὖν προσελθὼν εἶπεν, οἷ βαδιεῖται καὶ ἐφ’ ὅ τι, καὶ έπῄ- νεσα καὶ συνευξάμην καὶ ἐμήνυσα τὸν ὅρμον. ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν τὸν νεανίσκον ἠμειψάμην τῷ πέμψαι παρ’ ὃν ἐχρῆν, σὺ δ’ αὐτὸν παίδευε μὲν ἃ καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους, ὅρα δὲ ἥδιον ἢ τοὺς ἄλλους, ὅπως εἰδέναι πᾶσιν ᾖ, πόσον τι τοὐμὸν παρὰ σοί.