Letter 352
Late Antiquity Basil of Caesarea Greek- Libanius to Basil
See, I have sent the speech — and I am drenched in sweat as I do it. For how could I not be, sending a speech to a man of such a kind, one capable of showing, by his own facility in oratory, that the wisdom of Plato and the force of Demosthenes are babbled about for nothing — while what is mine is such as a gnat set beside an elephant? And so I shudder and tremble, reckoning the day on which you will examine my words; indeed, I have all but lost my wits.