Letter 735: This man Pandorus is from Cilicia -- dead last in wealth, but first in desire for learning.

To the same man. (362) This Pandorus here is a Cilician, in respect to wealth among the very last, but in respect to a desire for eloquence among the first. For he rightly knows that those who lack those former things [riches] must acquire these latter ones [letters], which can bear up even those former things [...]. And though he is a formidable hunter of rhetoric, he did not split his mind into countless roads, but, leaving the manifold pursuits to others, he pursued this one sufficiently, and he has part of it, and is not far from the rest. Now, therefore, he has come both to see his small fatherland and to be together with his father and to present himself to you. Receive the young man kindly, then, and impart to him the things that befit men of such standing; and if indeed he should wish to display something of his own, both lend him your ears and stretch out your hand to him.

Τῷ αὐτῷ. (362) Πάνδωρος οὑτοσὶ Κιλίκων ἐστὶν εἰς μὲν χρημάτων λόγον ἔσχατος, εἰς δὲ λόγων ἐπιθυμίαν πρῶτος. οἶδε γὰρ ὀρθῶς ὅτι τοῖς ἐκείνων ἀποροῦσι τούσδε κτητέον, οἳ κἀκεῖνα δῦναν τᾶι φέρειν. δεινὸς δὲ ὢν ῥητορικῆς θηρατὴς οὐκ ἐσχίσθη τὴν διάνοιαν εἰς ὁδοὺς μυρίας, ἀλλ’ ἀφεὶς ἑτέροις τὰ ποικίλα ταύτην ἐδίωξεν ἱκανῶς καὶ τὰ μὶν αὐτῆς ἔχει τῶν δέ ἵν οὐ πόρρω. νῦν οὖν ἥκει τήν τε πατρίδα ὀψόμενος τὴν μικρὰν καὶ τῷ πατρὶ συνεσόμενος καὶ σοὶ φανησόμενος διξαὶ δὴ τὸν νέον εὐμενῶς καὶ μετάδος ὧν τοῖς τηλικούτοις πρέπει· κἂν ἄρα τι καὶ δεῖξαι τῶν αὑτοῦ βουληθῇ, καὶ ὦτα πάρασχε καὶ λεῖρα ὄρεξον.