11 surviving letters between Libanius and Modestos, spanning 348-392 AD.
Have you been seized by the same feeling that has seized us?
I was right to do both things: to write and to stop writing.
Many are those who announce that you are coming, but we do not yet see the deed.
If I knew how to revolve around the doors of the powerful, I would myself be one of the powerful.
Hear what the bearer of this letter says: he accuses the negligent servants and asks you to correct what has gone wrong.
I was pleased that you urge me to do the very thing I urge you to do.
The young men have come to collect on your promises, and you — noble in all else and incapable of falsehood — will...
Do well by the poets, for a debt of gratitude lodged with a poet is a fine treasure.
Brachinus is a veteran of that campaign through which you accomplished so many great things in our region.
This Elpidius is the son of the famous Xiphidius, and no less skilled than his father in his craft.
This Theodorus was born among us but is enrolled among you, having inherited his father's citizenship.