Ep. XXVIII.

In visiting the mountain cities which border on Pamphylia I fished up in the Mountains a sea Glaucus; I did not drag the fish out of the depths with a net of flax, but I snared my game with the love of a friend.  And having once taught my Glaucus to travel by land, I sent him as the bearer of a letter to Your Goodness.  Please receive him kindly, and honour him with the hospitality commended in the Bible, not forgetting the vegetables.

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Τὰς ὀρείους μέν, ὁμόρους δὲ τῇ Παμφυλίᾳ πόλεις ἐπισκεψάμενοι, Γλαῦκον ἐκεῖ θαλάττιον ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσιν ἠλιεύσαμεν, οὐ λίνου δικτύοις τοῦ βυθοῦ τὸν ἰχθὺν ἐξελκύσαντες, ἀλλ' ἀγάπῃ φίλων τὸ θήραμα σαγηνεύσαντες. Ἅπαξ δὲ τὸν Γλαῦκον πεζεύειν μαθόντα, γραμματηφόρον προσαπεστάλκαμεν πρὸς τὴν ὑμετέραν ἀγαθότητα, ὃν φιλοφρόνως ξενισάτω καὶ τῷ παρὰ ταῖς Γραφαῖς εὐδοκιμοῦντι ξενισμῷ μετὰ λαχάνων καταξιωσάτω.