Letter 10054: The question of the appointment is one I have raised before and raise again now with more information than I had...

A complaint that demands a duty is itself a gracious thing.

I've already satisfied both my regard for you and your expectations with a great number of letters in recent days.

Here is another laying before you a letter, of which, if the truth may be said, you are the cause yourself, for you provoke them by the honour you do them. Here too is another petitioner for you, a prisoner of fear, our kinsman Eustratius, who with us and by us entreats your goodness, inasmuch as he cannot endure to be in perpetual rebellion aga...

Once the hierarchy used to correct and temper the office of emperor when it stumbled and fell, but now it has fallen...

I am not recommending Theodorus to you — you raised him yourself, and I need not ask you to love him, since you have...