Letter 439
Libanius→Agesilaus|libanius
To Agesilaus. (355)
These ambassadors from our city are among our foremost citizens, both by birth and by character. They also know that your son is no ordinary student of rhetoric. So you may ask them about him -- and hear something about me as well.
Ἀγησιλάῳ. (355)
Οἱ πρέσβεις οἵδε τῆς πόλεως ἡμῖν τὰ πρῶτα γένους τε
ἕνεκα καὶ τρόπων, εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ τῶν εἰδότων ὡς ὁ σὸς υἱὸς οὐ
κατὰ τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐν λόγοις. ὥστ᾿ ἔξεστί σοι περὶ ἐκεί-
νου τι πυθέσθαι καὶ περὶ ἡμῶν ἀκοῦσαι.
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To Agesilaus. (355)
These ambassadors from our city are among our foremost citizens, both by birth and by character. They also know that your son is no ordinary student of rhetoric. So you may ask them about him -- and hear something about me as well.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.