Letter 611: So you weren't actually longing for the speeches — you just wanted to be seen longing for them.
To Palladius. (361)
So then, you did not really desire eloquence, but rather the appearance of desiring eloquence. At any rate, you did not dare to leave a servant here for a single day. Yet I, even to one who has no need of it, send it. For it is plain that, had you met with it again, you would have found fault, feigning to be in love.
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Latin / Greek Original
Παλλαδίῳ. (361)
Οὐκ ἄρα τῶν λόγων ἐπεθύμεις, ἀλλὰ τοῦ δοκεῖν ἐπιθυμεῖν
τῶν λόγων. οὔκουν ἐτόλμησας οἰκέτην τῇδε καταλιπεῖν ἡμέ-
ραν μίαν. ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ καὶ μηδὲν δεομένῳ πέμπω. δῆλον γὰρ
ὡς αὖθις ἐντυχὼν ἐρᾶν πλαττόμενος ἐπετίμας ἄν.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern libanius retranslated v1.
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