Letter 96: Well, this particular labor has ended well -- the helmsman's skill proved stronger than the wild winds.

To Modestus. (359/60) This contest, then, came to a fair conclusion, since the skill of the helmsman proved stronger than the savage winds. Come now, set upright for us also the city of Alexander [Alexandria], which is hastening toward ruin, so that the people may be saved, and that, concerning you, those who are able to speak may have lofty things to say. For it would be fitting that you should be able to lead even the departed into the light; for assuredly you would first have raised up for us the divine man.

**To Modestus** (359/60) Well then, that contest has ended happily, the helmsman's skill having proved stronger than the savage winds. Come now, set right for us the city of Alexander too, as it rushes toward destruction — so that its people may be saved, and so that those who have the power of eloquent speech may have lofty things to say about you. How I wish you had the power to bring even the dead back to the light! For surely you would have raised up the divine one for us first of all.

Μοδέστῳ. (359/60) Οὗτος μὲν δὴ ἄεθλος εἰς καλὸν ἐτελεύτησε τῆς τοῦ κυβερνήτου τέχνης κρείττονος γενομένης τῶν ἀγρίων πνευ- μάτων. ἄγε δὴ καὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου πόλιν ὄρθωσον ἡμῖν ἐπειγομένην εἰς ὄλεθρον, ὅπως οἱ μὲν σώζωνται, περὶ σοῦ δὲ ὑπάρχῃ τοῖς δυναμένοις λέγειν ὑψηλὰ λέγειν. ὡς ἴδει σε δύνασθαι καὶ τοὺς οἰχομένους εἰς φῶς ἄγειν· πάντως γὰρ ἂν ἡμῖν πρῶτον τὸν θεῖον ἀνέστησας.