Letters of Julian/Letter 11

11. To Leontius
[361 From Naissa or Constantinople] The Thurian historian said that men's ears are less to be trusted than their eyes. But in your case I hold the opposite opinion from this, since here my ears are more trustworthy than my eyes. For not if I had seen you ten times would I have trusted my eyes as I now trust my ears, instructed as I have been by a man who is in no wise capable of speaking falsely, that, while in all respects you show yourself a man, you surpass yourself in your achievements "with hand and foot," as Homer says. I therefore entrust you with the employment of arms, and have despatched to you a complete suit of armour such as is adapted for the infantry. Moreover I have enrolled you in my household corps.