Letter 102: I ask your friendship and protection for my dear Sosenas — born and raised amid learning, yet not meeting with the...
To Pylaemenes.
I ask your friendship and protection for my dear Sosenas — born and raised amid learning, yet not meeting with the fortune that learning deserves. He blames his city's miserable condition and has convinced himself that one can change one's luck by changing one's address. He is heading for Constantinople, persuaded that where a king is, there Fortune is also — and perhaps Fortune will discover him there.
Do for him whatever you can. You deserve to have power, and to help the unfortunate rise. If Sosenas needs introductions to your friends, make them yourself.
Human translation — Livius.org
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