1What ought to be done about the theatre that has been begun at Nicaea you will best decide and settle on the spot. 1It will be enough for me to be told which view you have adopted: but exact the works from the private persons only when the theatre, on account of which they were promised, has been completed. 2These little Greeks dote on gymnasia; 2perhaps that is why the people of Nicaea undertook its construction too ambitiously: but they ought to be content with what can suffice for them. 3What advice should be given to the people of Claudiopolis about the bath which, as you write, they have begun in an unsuitable place, you will decide.
3You cannot lack architects. 3There is no province that does not have both skilled and talented men; 3only do not suppose that it is quicker for them to be sent from Rome, since they usually come to us even from Greece.