Letter 611: So you weren't actually longing for the speeches — you just wanted to be seen longing for them.
To Palladius. (361 AD)
So you weren't actually longing for the speeches — you just wanted to be seen longing for them. You couldn't bring yourself to leave a single servant here for even one day. But I'm sending them anyway, to someone who has no need of them. Because it's obvious: the next time we met, you'd have been pretending to desire them all over again and reproaching me.
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Latin / Greek Original
Παλλαδίῳ. (361)
Οὐκ ἄρα τῶν λόγων ἐπεθύμεις, ἀλλὰ τοῦ δοκεῖν ἐπιθυμεῖν
τῶν λόγων. οὔκουν ἐτόλμησας οἰκέτην τῇδε καταλιπεῖν ἡμέ-
ραν μίαν. ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ καὶ μηδὲν δεομένῳ πέμπω. δῆλον γὰρ
ὡς αὖθις ἐντυχὼν ἐρᾶν πλαττόμενος ἐπετίμας ἄν.
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