Letter 682: I do not wish to believe that you cared little for the affairs of Ulpianus and Palladius — that you neither honored...
To Julian. (361/62)
I am unwilling to believe this, that the affairs of Ulpianus and Palladius have been of little concern to you, and that you have neither honored them as friends, nor respected them as orators, nor taken into account that these companions labor at the same labors as you. For things are said by many which it is not even seemly for me to repeat; but I contend that none of these things is your doing.
Write, then, and send your testimony, and come to the aid both of me and of yourself.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἰουλιανῷ. (361/62)
Οὐ βούλομαι πιστεῦσαι τοῦθ’ ὅτι σοι τῶν Οὐλπιανοῦ
καὶ Παλλαδίου μικρὸν ἐμέλησε πραγμάτων καὶ οὔτε ὡς φίλους
ἐτίμησας οὔθ’ ὡς ῥήτορας ᾐδέσθης οὔτε τὸ τοὺς αὐτούς σοι
πόνους πονεῖν τοὺς ἑταίρους εἰς λόγον ἔθου. λέγεται μὲν γὰρ
ὑπὸ πολλῶν ἃ οὐδὲ εἰπεῖν μοι καλόν, ἐγὼ δὲ μάχομαι μηδὲν
τούτων εἶναι σόν.
γράψας δὴ πέμψον τὴν μαρτυρίαν καὶ
βοήθησον ἐμοί τε καὶ σεαυτῷ.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern libanius retranslated v1.
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