Letter 548: If I were to tell you who Letoius is by birth, who he is by character, and what he is to me, I would end up teaching...
To Andronicus. (357)
If I were to tell you who Letoius is in his family, and what he is in his character, and what he is toward me, I would at the same time be teaching you about yourself as well; for you know this man no less well than you know your own self.
Therefore do you yourself speak on his behalf to others, but inquire of him concerning both me and my uncle [the maternal uncle on Libanius's side]; for he knows very well both my own affairs and that man's prosperity.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἀνδρονίκῳ. (357)
Εἰ λέγοιμί σοι, τίς τὸ γένος ὁ Λητόιος καὶ τίς τοὺς
τρόπους καὶ τίς πρὸς ἐμέ, διδάξω σέ ποτε καὶ περὶ σαυτοῦ·
τοῦτον γὰρ οὐ χεῖρον ἢ σαυτὸν οἶσθα σύ.
διὸ δὴ λέγε μὲν
αὐτὸς ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ πρὸς ἄλλους, πυνθάνου δὲ αὐτοῦ περί τε
ἐμοῦ καὶ τοῦ θείου πάνυ γὰρ οἶδε τά τι ἐμὰ πράγματα καὶ
τὴν εὐπραξίαν ἐκείνου.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern libanius retranslated v1.
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