Letter 986: Libanius says Asclepius longs for Clemens' presence, voice, and writings.

The rhetor Asclepius came admired and loved by every people through whom he passed. He needed no theaters to show who he is in the house of eloquence; in the ordinary circumstances always before him, he made it clear by every proper act whose son he was. Still, he seems to have become so fine through you more than through anything that might be named by someone ignorant of the truth. With you, when he was already a man more capable of learning, he spent a long time; and it is your habit always to utter something noble, something that makes the hearer nobler. Now, when he was hurrying and would not accept delay, and when he was asked what was pressing him, he left aside everything else: fatherland, fields, city, and ancestral house. He named you instead, your soul, your voice, and what you give to those with you, both without writing and in writing. Since he will be with you, he will share in both. Let us who are absent receive the second kind, the kind that can make us better too.