Letter 965: Libanius compliments Clemens' speech and asks him to send more work and support Asclepius' business.

A good tongue has spoken about a good tongue. Asclepius reported to me about Clemens, and I was pleased by what I heard. He reported that you had been involved in those earlier honorable labors, the labors of philosophy, and that you make many people more just when they look to your example. You also improve my own affairs in rhetoric with the speech you sent, a speech that undertook a just war and won it. I did not read it once and then put it away under seal. It lies open for me all the time and enters my soul through my eyes. I wished to have nothing to complain of, but you force me to complain by stopping with the first things you sent, though you could rightly have sent many speeches on each subject. Surely you compose many, and this offspring of yours is continuous, each second piece always stronger than the first. Why, then, did Aristides Asclepius not bring these too, when he was coming to bring the greatest gifts? He himself is a gift, sweet-spoken no less than Nestor, but he would have delighted us more with both gifts. I would like him, after passing through the estates, to give proper attention to the cares of office and to the Syrians. Send letters about this to excellent Eutychianus, including something about my letters to you concerning the office.