Letter 779: Look — the elder of Justinianus's two sons is now my relation by marriage.

To Celsus. (362) Look, the elder of Justinian's two sons is now a connection of mine by marriage. For I have a daughter too, since she belongs to Cynegius, who, imitating his own brother, has shown himself toward me no worse than my own brothers. Therefore, so that he too and Letoius may see that they love a man who is not slack in his hour, I should wish the one who is to take the girl through your agency to fare well. For these young men have in Cilicia both land and the other things that belong to the prosperous. About these matters both inquire and ask and inform yourself and make it plain that, if anyone should use force, you will not allow it. But this much is common to Cilicia and to the law of the office. Yet let there be added to the law a further concern befitting kinship. And the things you would have thought fit to grant to Marcus, had he happened to be farming among you, those same things now employ in regard to these men's possessions.

Κέλσῳ. (362) Ἴδου καὶ κηδεστής ἐστί μοι τοῖν Ἰουστινιανοῦ παίδοιν ὁ πρεσβύτερος. ἔστι γάρ μοι καὶ θυγάτηρ ἐπειδήπερ ἐστὶ Κυνηγίῳ, ὅς τὸν ἀδελφὸν τὸν αὑτοῦ μιμησάμενος οὐ χείρων εἰς ἐμὲ τῶν ἐμῶν ἀδελφῶν ἀνεφάνη. ἵν’ οὖν κὰκεῖνος κοὶ Λητόϊος ἴδωσιν ὡς οὐ ῥᾴθυμον ὄρα φιλοῦσι, τὸν δαὶ σοῦ τὴν παῖδα ληψόμενον βουλοίμην ἂν εὖ παθεῖν. ἔστι γὰρ τοῖς νέοις ἐν Κιλικίᾳ καὶ γῆ καὶ τἄλλα ἃ τῶν εὐδαιμόνων ἐστί. περὶ τούτων καὶ ζήτει καὶ ἐρώτα καὶ μάνθανε καὶ ποίει δῆ- λον ὡς, εἰ βιάζοιτό τις, οὐκ έπιτρέφεις. ἀλλὰ τοῦτο μὶν κοινὸν Κιλικίας καὶ τοῦ τῆς άρχῆς νόμου· προσίστω δὲ τῷ νόμῳ φροντὶς ἑτέρα συγγενείᾳ πρέπουσα. καὶ ὧν ἂν ἠξίωσας Μάρκον, εἰ παρ’ ὑμῖν ἐτύγχανε γεωργῶν, τούτοις νῦν χρῶ περὶ τὰ τῶνδε κτήματα.