Letter 632: What wrongs Eustathius has suffered and comes to seek justice for, you will learn from my letter to your father.

LibaniusApolinarios|c. 374 AD|Libanius|AI-assisted
imperial politics

To Apolinarius and Gemellus. (361)

What wrongs Eustathius has suffered, for which he comes to obtain justice, you will learn from the letter to your father. But you must show yourselves both hating the man who committed the wrong and pitying the man who has suffered it, and what sort of magistrates you would prove to be, through the things you do while living alongside your father, who is a magistrate.

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Latin / Greek Original

Ἀπολιναρίῳ καὶ Γεμέλλῳ. (361)

Ἃ μὲν ἠδικημένος Εὐστάθιος ἥκει δίκην ληψόμενος, ἐκ
τῶν πρὸς τὸν πατέρα ὑμῶν εἴσεσθε γραμμάτων· ὑμᾶς δὲ δεῖ
φανῆναι καὶ τὸν δεδρακότα μισοῦντας καὶ τὸν πεπονθότα
ἐλεοῦντας καὶ τίνες ἂν ἄρχοντες γένοισθε, δι’ ὧν πράττετε
συζῶντες ἄρχοντι τῷ πατρί.

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  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern libanius retranslated v1.

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