Letter 48
Synesius of Cyrene→Pylaemenes|c. 408 AD|synesius cyrene
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To Pylaemenes.
You are quite right to return to the capital. Even if good fortune had attended you in the mountains of Isauria, good fortune becomes unfortunate when it comes in the wrong place. Besides, I have a personal reason to want you prospering at court: as long as I have a friend near the throne, I have hope that someone is looking out for me and mine.
Letter 48: On Pylaemenes' Return to Constantinople
[1] To Pylaemenes
You are quite right to come back to the city where the Emperor dwells. For even if good fortune had attended you in the mountains of Isauria, nevertheless good fortune becomes unfortunate because of the place where one is. [2] Moreover I have a personal reason to desire that you should prosper in the palace itself. As long as you are there, you can receive and send letters, the most precious to me of all the exports of Thrace .
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To Pylaemenes.
You are quite right to return to the capital. Even if good fortune had attended you in the mountains of Isauria, good fortune becomes unfortunate when it comes in the wrong place. Besides, I have a personal reason to want you prospering at court: as long as I have a friend near the throne, I have hope that someone is looking out for me and mine.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.