10 surviving letters between Libanius and Spectatus, spanning 319-365 AD.
Thucydides says that a wrong is dissolved by a favor, when someone later does something pleasing to the person he...
I know perfectly well that asking you to make an effort on behalf of a friend is like inviting a tortoise to a footrace.
If people knew how you really feel about me, they wouldn't ask me to send you letters on their behalf.
My uncle honored me in many ways, and in particular, when he was about to die, he made me one of his heirs --...
Among the soldiers there is a brother of this Hesychius, and Hesychius himself has become a friend of ours for no...
The school goes on, as it always does -- some years better than others, but never without interest.
The news from your quarter confirms what we have long suspected: that education alone is no longer sufficient...
What you most desired -- and what you desired, I believe, was a letter from me -- here it is.
I admired Gerontius's character and made him my friend, and now I do whatever I can for him in return.
Three things need to happen through you: one for a kinsman, one for an orator, and one for a rhetorician.