Letter 21
To the Governor
IF your Excellency should remember Theodorus (and how could it be otherwise?), I beg you will show some respect for his kinsman by honouring him in the same way. By kind treatment to an excellent man you will confer a favour on the senate of our illustrious Alexandria; they all in a body recommended the man to me, and begged me to help him with letters of introduction. I have done all that I can in this matter now that I have written to you. Whether my efforts prove of any use to him, rests entirely with yourself.