Letter 591: The laws and myself will take care that that most abandoned servant shall be punished for what he has said and done.

The laws and myself will take care that that most abandoned servant shall be punished for what he has said and done. But you, together with the empire, show that you possess also such benevolence as the excellent Priscian displayed to Seleucus . Acting thus, you will induce the preceptors of Arrhabius -- I mean Calliopus -- and his father to treat him with more indulgence. For Seleucus married the daughter of one, and the sister of the other. Him therefore, whom in your letters you so highly honour as to style him your son, assist, I entreat you, in his literary improvements. Priscian was an excellent orator, and on that account was invited by Julian to Constantinople. Libanius wrote several letters to him. Selecus is mentioned as a friend of Libanius in many of his letters, and many are addressed to him. Calliopus, from some of the letters to him, seems to have been an orator.