Letter 981: Libanius tells Anysius that delay is unreasonable in a long-lived petitioner's case.

I think the letter we sent in reply to your first letter has reached you, and that you have read it and found no room for complaint; another man might even have said that it deserved praise. Now, in reply to your second letter, we say again what we said before. Trusting that we too will benefit from the much-praised justice of noble Rufinus, we look to no one else and take refuge in you. We know that this view has prevailed even with Olympius. In his own discussions of these matters, whenever someone asked what he intended to do, he would say that he would obey you, since you have taken such great care for justice; and he added many examples from which he said he could draw confidence. Those same things give us confidence as well. Let us not delay, and let the man who is going to resolve the matter not keep putting it off. There is nothing surprising in a man being urgent when he has lived so long.