Datianus, consular

That your city [Constantinople] is bigger than ours, and by a wide margin -- and more beautiful than it is big --...

Since you began helping me long ago -- help through which I recovered what was mine -- a brief word will suffice.

Clematius struck us as far more admirable -- not because he picked up rhetoric in Rome, as he imagines, but because...

My dear Datianus, I come to you again in my affliction — and I am grateful that you are a man I can come to.