Letter 640
To Maximus. (361)
Eudikios is said to have grieved only briefly for his father, and the reason is said to be you — you who removed from him the very sense of his orphanhood by many great deeds, which we had the pleasure of learning from the rescued man himself in a long letter.
You already receive your reward from us: applause, praise, and the knowledge that no one is ignorant of what you have done. And it is likely that greater rewards await you — of the kind the gods customarily give to good men.
I once thought it necessary to exhort you, but no longer. For I see that generals rouse their soldiers with speeches before battle, but then consider the deeds themselves sufficient encouragement for what remains.
This young man you have long treated well. Now you will see him sharing his father's name and his brother's character.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.