Letter 850: Libanius asks Eusebius to help the envoys swiftly and trusts Theodosius not to punish the innocent.

If some other man, someone who did not know me, held the place you now hold, I would have to teach him the facts: each man's family, upbringing, education, and the shared labors that I and they have spent on eloquence. But as things are, I think you yourself could teach anyone who did not know. Since that is so, and since you love the envoys, nothing in this journey will be rough for them. You will carry them over every smooth stretch, helping them obtain what they ask, and helping them quickly, so that we may have the men back without many days being lost and with honor gained from the embassy. As for me, when the release you know about was taken away, I felt some grief, but reflection soon drove it out. Divine Theodosius has already saved some men who had done wrong; he has never exacted punishment from anyone who had done no wrong.

1. Εἰ μὲν ἄλλος τις τῶν ἀγνοούντων ἡμᾶς ἦν ἐν ᾧπερ αὐτὸς εἶ, διδάσκειν ἂν ἔδει με καὶ λέγειν γονέας τε ἑκάστου καὶ τροφὴν καὶ παιδείαν κοινούς τε πόνους ἐμοῦ τε καὶ αὐτῶν ὑπὲρ λόγων· νῦν δ’ αὐτὸς ἂν μοι δοκεῖς διδάξαι τοὺς ἀγνοούντας. 2. τούτου δὲ οὕτως ἔχοντος καὶ τῶν πρέσβεων ὑπὸ σοῦ φιλουμένων τραχὺ μὲν οὐδὲν ἔσται τῆς περὶ ταῦτα ὁδοῦ, διὰ δὲ λείας ἄξεις αὐτοὺς ἁπάσης συμπράττων μὲν ἐν οἷς αἰτοῦσιν εἰς τὸ τυχεῖν, συμπράττων δὲ εἰς τάχος, ὅπως ἔχοιμέν τε τοὺς ἄνδρας οὐ πολλῶν ἡμερῶν ἀνηλωμένων καὶ τῆς πρεσβείας εἰς δόξαν ἀπολελαυκότας. 3. ἐμοὶ δὲ τῆς λύσεως, ἣν οἶσθα, ἀνῃρημένης ἐγένετο μέν τις λύπη, ταχέως δὲ ἐξεκρούσθη λογισμοῖς. ὁ γὰρ δὴ θεῖος Θεοδόσιος ἁμαρτόντας μὲν ἤδη τινὰς ἔσωσε, δίκην δὲ παρ’ οὐδενὸς οὐδὲν ἀδικοῦντος ἔλαβεν.