Oration 1 (To Constantius)
Peri Philanthropias
Addressed to the emperor Constantius II, Themistius's first oration praises benevolence as the ideal virtue of a ruler, launching a long career as an influential court philosopher-orator serving successive Roman emperors regardless of their religion.
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