Letter 23
To Diogenes
The luxury of Syria is such that it makes men forget friends and relations. IT is five months now since you have greeted me with a letter, though you have received from Nature herself an exceptional gift for dictating, not merely letters on daily affairs, but letters destined to be known and admired. If you are in good health, however-- you, your golden children, and their mother, happy in her fair offspring,-- I am quite satisfied.