5 surviving letters between Datianus, consular and Libanius, spanning 324-356 AD.
That your city [Constantinople] is bigger than ours, and by a wide margin -- and more beautiful than it is big --...
This man needs your help, and he deserves it.
Since you began helping me long ago -- help through which I recovered what was mine -- a brief word will suffice.
Perhaps you will be willing to help me even in the present crisis, keeping faith with me to the end and with all...
Clematius struck us as far more admirable -- not because he picked up rhetoric in Rome, as he imagines, but because...