Letter 767: If you had written to Olympius what you wrote to me about my letters, and if he had known your passion for them, you...

To Severus. If you had written to Olympius the same things about my letters that you wrote to me, and if he had shared this affection of yours, you would have had more letters than the ones you were sending. For neither am I slow in these matters, nor is he, as the heir of Maximus's friendship toward me [...] not to call it madness, which I did not fail to recognize even before, but which now I have learned all the more, since the present occasion has brought us many messengers. But, I suppose, Olympius knows how to give letters, yet he is unwilling to demand them. And I perceive your ship when it puts in, but no longer when it sails away. And now I have given this letter, your own people having already set out, but it is to lie with Olympius, since I wish the charge against me to be dissolved, that I held my peace by not writing. But now I wished to take hold of you, if ever, with whom at that former time I cowered in fear, yet for whom now I longed, so that I might see the one who shares in the trembling also share in freedom.

Σευήρῳ. (362) Εἰ καὶ πρὸς Ὀλύμπιον ἃ πρὸς ἐμὲ περὶ τῶν ἐμῶν ἔγρα- φες ἐπιστολῶν ἐπιστολῶν καὶ σοῦ τὸν ἔρωτα τοῦτον ἐκεῖνος πλείους ἂν εἶχες ὧν ἔπεμπες. οὔτε γὰρ ἐγώ τις περὶ ταῦτα βραδὺς οὗτός τε κληρονόμος τῆς Μαξίμου πρὸς ἐμὲ φιλίας, ἕνα μὴ μανίας εἴπω, ἣν οὔτε πρότερον ἠγνόουν νῦν τε μᾶλλον ἔμαθον πολλοὺς ἡμῖν τοῦ καιροῦ κεκομκότος ἀγγέλους. ἀλλ᾿, οἶμαι, δοῦναι μὲν οἶδεν Ὀλύμπιος, ἀπαιτεῖν δὲ οὐ βούλεται γράμματα. καὶ τῆς σῆς νεὼς καταιρούσης μὲν αἰσθάνομαι, ἀποπλεούσης δὲ οὐκέτι. καὶ νῦν ταύτην ἔδωκα τὴν ἐπιστολὴν τῶν μὲν σῶν ἀνηγμένων, κεισομένην δὲ παρ’ Ὀλυμπίῳ βου- λόμενος λελύσθαι τὴν αἰτίαν ὡς οὐ γράφων εἶχον. σοῦ δὲ νῦν, εἴπερ ποτέ, ἐβουλόμην λαβέσθαι, σῦν ᾧ τὰ τότε μὶν ἔπτησσον, τὰ νῦν δὲ ἐπόθουν, ὅπως τὸν τοῦ τρόμου κοινω- νοῦντα καὶ τῆς ἐλευθερίας ἴδω.