Letter CCXI.1062    Placed in 375.

To Olympius.1063    cf. Letters iv., xii., xiii., cxxxi.

Truly when I read your excellency’s letter I felt unwonted pleasure and cheerfulness; and when I met your well-beloved sons, I seemed to behold yourself.  They found me in the deepest affliction, but they so behaved as to make me forget the hemlock, which your dreamers and dream mongers are carrying about to my hurt, to please the people who have hired them.  Some letters I have already sent; others, if you like, shall follow.  I only hope that they may be of some advantage to the recipients.

ΟΛΥΜΠΙῼ

[1] Καὶ τοῖς γράμμασιν ἐντυχὼν τῆς τιμιότητός σου ἡδίων ἐμαυτοῦ καὶ εὐθυμότερος ἐγενόμην, καὶ τοῖς ποθεινοτάτοις υἱέσιν εἰς ὁμιλίαν ἐλθὼν αὐτόν σε ἔδοξα καθορᾶν. Οἳ πάνυ μου τὴν ψυχὴν κεκακωμένην παραλαβόντες οὕτω διέθηκαν ὥστε ἐπιλαθέσθαι με τοῦ παρ' ὑμῖν κωνείου, ὃ οἱ ὀνειροπῶλαι καὶ ὀνειροκάπηλοι εἰς τὴν τῶν ἐκμισθωσαμένων αὐτοὺς χάριν καθ' ἡμῶν περιφέρουσιν. Ἐπιστολὰς δὲ τὰς μὲν ἔγραψα, τὰς δὲ καὶ εἰς ὕστερον δώσομεν, ἐὰν ἐθέλῃς. Μόνον εἴη τι ὄφελος παρ' αὐτῶν τοῖς λαμβάνουσιν.