Letter 10: Aeneas sends the elderly poet Paul to Zosimus for support.
If good Paul were young and a poet, he would deserve honor. As it is, he is both a poet and an old man, and both claims call for people who know how to show honor. You want to be first among such people, and you are right to want it. You now have someone on whom you can confer a benefit.
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Latin / Greek Original
ι'. Ζωσίμῳ σοφιστῇ.
Εἰ μὲν νέος ἦν ὁ χρηστὸς Παῦλος, ποιητὴς δέ, τιμῆς ἄξιος ἦν· νῦν δὲ ποιητὴς καὶ γέρων, ἀμφότερα δὲ ταῦτα τοὺς θεραπεύειν εἰδότας ἐπιζητεῖ. τούτων ἐθέλεις εἶναι καὶ πρῶτος, καλῶς γε ποιῶν. ἔχεις οὖν ὃν εὖ ποιήσεις.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern aeneas gaza hercher v1.
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