Book 30
5.8
After the example of the rest of the provincials the Epirotes also were compelled by the prefect to send envoys to the emperor to offer him their thanks,For the merits of the governor. and forced a philosopher called Iphicles,A Cynic, formerly intimate with Julian. a man renowned for his strength of soul, against his own desire to go and perform that duty.
5.9
And he, when he came into the emperor’s presence, being recognized and asked the reason for his coming, replied in Greek; and when the emperor asked explicitly whether those who sent him thought well of the prefect in their hearts, he said, as became a philosopher who made a profession of truth: With groans and against their will.
