Letter 990: A civic celebration of Tatianus' honor, with a note about literary copies entrusted to Proclus.

The letters announcing the honor paid to you, that just honor, will come to us; indeed the report of the honor has arrived first, making a festival in every city through which it passes. The cities that exist because of you, that are preserved and increased through you, ought to leap, sing, and dance, repaying as they can your many great and splendid benefactions. We who live among the Muses will celebrate even more, both because we share the common benefit and because we have received something more: education has been enlarged by you, as your revision joins poetry to Homer through Homer's own words. This work was loved before and passed through the hands of teachers and students, but after being refined by a third hand its beauty became greater and shone more brightly. As for the copies you thought should again be with you, they have been given to excellent Proclus. Pagrae knows this too, where Olympius placed the parchment in his hands. I explained the matter also to good Palladius, who has always done only what the laws approve.