Letter 897: Libanius chides Saturninus for claiming he didn't receive his letters.

Maybe I'm lying about everything else - saying I wrote when I didn't, or that people received letters they never got. But as for that letter in which I thanked you for your safety after you fought off someone who wished you harm - who in the 'Great City' [Constantinople] didn't know about it? With so many people talking and listening, how could the very person it was written to be the only one unaware? It was Maximus who informed me that you had fought and won. I sent my response immediately, and not many days later I heard from the man who delivered it that he had given it to you. While I was waiting for your reply, which never appeared, I was despondent, but I didn't stop being grateful to you. I could also mention another silence on your part after my speech; instead of the 'greater silver' [the reward of a reply] I got nothing. I didn't necessarily expect praise, unless it was earned, but at least an acknowledgment that the speech arrived. Even if you didn't praise the work, you could have praised the intent that did its best. But you didn't even give me that. It seems a 'river' swept us away - not the Orontes or the Cydnus, where your companions are, but the Danube, the Nile, and other great ones. This deprived me of your letters about the speech and made your friends think they should follow your lead in not writing. Perhaps Letoius will also try to say something about his own silence, and he probably won't be at a loss for words. Know that you have made the excellent Annianus famous and have pleased me in this, as you did with your letter accusing me, which was clearly written with affection.