Letter 273

273. Without Address, Concerning Hera

Being exactly persuaded that you love our honour so well as to reckon what concerns us as your own, I commend to your surpassing nobility our most reverend brother Hera — whom we call our brother not according to any mere custom, but according to the most exact disposition of friendship, which admits of no excess — and I beseech you both to look upon him as one of your own, and to grant him such patronage as is in your power, in whatever he may need of your magnanimity; so that I may have this benefit also to number among the many good things I have already obtained from you.