Letter 932: Libanius asks Jovianus to use his influence with the prefect and council opponents for Thalassius.

We would like to enjoy some benefit from the power you rightly possess. This will be a shared gain: yours as the man who grants the favor, and ours as the people who receive it. Our affairs will be better, and your reputation will be greater. I am convinced that you care more about reputation than other men care about money. That is what made you a friend of Iamblichus, the man dear to the gods, and brought you praises from him. You will receive still more of them if you do this. You know my friendship for Thalassius, which began from a good source, as I say, if speeches and books are good things. You were present and did not miss what happened when Thalassius put himself forward for the council. I think it grieved you too, as it naturally would a friend. So end your own grief as well as mine by undoing a bad thing with a good one: speak both to the prefect and to the men who spoke then. I would much rather blame the whole affair on some evil spirit.