Letter 672
To Julian. (~361 AD)
As for the most villainous slave—how he will pay the penalty for both what he said and what he did—that is a matter for the laws and for me. But with your office, also take over the goodwill which the admirable Priscianus held toward Seleukos. In doing this you will make the teachers Kalliopios and his father better disposed toward Arrabios—for Seleukos is marrying the sister of the one and the daughter of the other. The man whom you already honor in your letters, adding a greeting to the boy as well: support him in his studies.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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1. The heroic deeds of your present splendour are small, and your grand attack against me, or rather against yourself, is paltry. When I think of you robed in purple, a crown on your dishonoured head, which, so long as true religion is absent, rather disgraces than graces your empire, I tremble.