Letter 887: Libanius highly recommends Eusebius to Palladius, noting the student's talent and his family's loss of wealth due to a legal feud.

Eusebius is coming to you with high hopes for this matter, having seen on many occasions your devotion to my interests and how you take as much pleasure in doing me a favor as I do in receiving it. With your current help, you will be assisting a man who is well-born, well-bred, just, and disciplined. He has acquired such a command of oratory that whenever I have been ill, the other students suffered no loss because of his teaching. He certainly would have succeeded if he had followed my career path, or even his father's; but having aimed for something more prominent, he is now at your mercy, possessing only a small fraction of the wealth his family once had. Much more would still be intact if it hadn't been for the hostile legal feud with Prophetius. I am speaking of a matter with many witnesses, so you won't have much trouble in advocating for him.