Letter 574: I am still writing to you while you are away.
To Heortius. (357)
We are still writing to you while you are away, though you ought to be here with us and not see the words of the boy [our son] only through letters, but in every form in which words exist.
I would have given much for you to know Themistius, who has come to us; for in that way you would have marveled both at me, who have changed, and at him, who has been transformed.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἑορτίῳ. (357)
Ἔτι σοι γράφομεν ἀπόντι, χρῆν δέ σε εἶναι παρ’ ἡμῖν
καὶ μὴ ταῖς ἐπιστολαῖς ὁρᾶν μόνον τοῦ παιδὸς τοὺς λόγους,
ἀλλὰ πᾶσιν εἴδεσιν ὁπόσα λόγων.
πολλῶν δ’ ἂν ἐπριάμην
εἰδέναι σε τὸν παρ’ ἡμᾶς ἥκοντα Θεμίστιον· οὕτω γὰρ ἆν
ἐθαύμασας ἐμέ τε τὸν μεταβαλόντα κἀκεῖνον τὸν μεταστάντα.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern libanius retranslated v1.
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