Letter 10005: A legal question has arisen in the administration of the city that requires an imperial rescript to resolve; I set...

Among the chief matters of state, care has often been taken that, for the education of the nobility, philosophers and teachers should be sought from Attica; and so public authority too summoned a number of them for the use of our city, lords emperors. Now the benevolence of your age has of its own accord laid claim, for the Roman schools, to a leading man of wisdom. For Celsus, born of his father Archetimus—whom the recollection of men of letters agrees to have been little inferior to Aristotle—promises our youth instruction in the liberal arts, seeking no gain from his profession, and therefore worthy to be co-opted into the most illustrious order [the Senate], so that a mind free from the vices of avarice [...]