Letter CXLIV.739    Placed in 373.

To the prefects’ officer.740    On the same subject.

You know the bearer from meeting him in the town.  Nevertheless I write to commend him to you, that he may be useful to you in many matters in which you are interested, from his being able to give pious and sensible advice.  Now is the time to carry out what you have said to me in private; I mean when this my brother has told you the state of the poor.

ΤΡΑΚΤΕΥΤῌ ΤΩΝ ΕΠΑΡΧΩΝ

[1] Γνωρίζεις πάντως τόνδε ἐκ τῆς κατὰ τὴν πόλιν συντυχίας, ὅμως δέ σοι αὐτὸν καὶ διὰ τῆς ἐπιστολῆς προσάγομεν συνιστῶντες ὅτι εἰς πολλά σοι τῶν σπουδαζομένων χρήσιμος ἔσται διὰ τὸ καὶ συνετῶς καὶ εὐλαβῶς δύνασθαι ὑποτίθεσθαι τὰ πρακτέα. Ἃ δὲ ἐμοὶ εἰς τὸ οὖς διελέχθης ταῦτα νῦν ἐστι καιρὸς ἐπιδείξασθαι, ἐπειδάν σοι ὁ προειρημένος ἀδελφὸς τὰ τῶν πτωχῶν ὑποδείξῃ.