Letter 607: If you honor our companion as he deserves, you will have done us a favor as well.

LibaniusAgapetos|c. 371 AD|Libanius|AI-assisted
friendship

To Agapetus.

If you would honor our companion in the manner that is fitting, you would also be doing a favor to us.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.

Latin / Greek Original

Ἀγαπητῷ.

Τὸν ἑταῖρον ἡμῶν εἰ τὰ εἰκότα τιμήσαις, καὶ ἡμῖν ἂν εἴης
κεχαρισμένος.

Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern libanius retranslated v1.

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