Letter 677: The man who preserves Helladius's household by his tireless efforts is this Martyrius here.

LibaniusAnatolios|c. 378 AD|Libanius|AI-assisted
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To Anatolius. (361)

This man here, Martyrius, is the one who preserves Helladius's household by his labors in every matter. But the need for a man to attend once more to that very business for which he has come has made him run there. For he has come to stir up a sluggish suitor and either to lead him on to marriage or to send him off once he has changed his mind.

If, then, you receive Martyrius, as is fitting for a man sent by us and on behalf of such affairs, all will go well for us.

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Latin / Greek Original

Ἀνατολίῳ. (361)

Ὁ σώζων Ἑλλαδίῳ τὸν οἶκον τοῖς περὶ ἕκαστα πόνοις
Μαρτύριός ἐστιν οὑτοσί. τὸ δὲ δεῖν ἀνδρὸς εἰς ἐκεῖνο πάλιν
ἐφ᾿ ᾧπερ ἥκει πεποίηκεν αὐτὸν τρέχειν. ἥκει γὰρ μνηστῆρα
ῥᾴθυμον κινήσων καὶ ἢ πρὸς γάμον ἄζων ἢ μεταβεβλημένον
ἀφήσων.

ἢν οὖν ἴδῃς Μαρτύριον, ὡς εἰκὸς τὸν ὑφ’ ἡμῶν
τε καὶ ὑπὲρ τοιούτων πεμφθέντα, πάνθ’ ἡμῖν ἕξει καλῶς.

Revision history

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

    Initial corpus import from modern libanius retranslated v1.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/First1KGreek/blob/master/volume_xml/libanius_10.xml

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