Ep. 10.81.1Cum Prūsae ad Olympum, domine, pūblicīs negōtiīs intrā hospitium eōdem diē exitūrus vacārem, Asclēpiadēs magistrātus indicāvit appellātum mē ā Claudiō Eumolpō.When I was at Prusa near Olympus, sir, attending to public business in my lodgings, intending to leave the same day, the magistrate Asclepiades informed me that an appeal had been made to me by Claudius Eumolpus. Ep. 10.81.1Cum Cocceiānus Diōn in bulē assignārī cīvitātī opus cuius cūram ēgerat vellet, tum Eumolpus assistēns Flāviō Archippō dīxit exigendam esse ā Diōne ratiōnem operis, ante quam reī pūblicae trāderētur, quod aliter fēcisset ac dēbuisset.When Cocceianus Dio wished a building of which he had had charge to be handed over to the city at a meeting of the council, Eumolpus, appearing for Flavius Archippus, said that Dio should be required to give an account of the work before it was handed over to the city, since he had carried it out otherwise than he ought. Ep. 10.81.2Adiēcit etiam esse in eōdem positam tuam statuam et corpora sepultōrum, uxōris Diōnis et fīliī, postulāvitque ut cognōscerem prō tribūnālī.He added also that your statue had been placed in the same building, as well as the bodies of people buried there, Dio's wife and son, and demanded that I should hear the case in court.
Ep. 10.81.3Quod cum ego mē prōtinus factūrum dīlātūrumque profectiōnem dīxissem, ut longiōrem diem ad struendam causam darem utque in aliā cīvitāte cognōscerem petiit.When I said that I would do so at once and postpone my departure, he asked that I should allow a longer interval for preparing the case and should hear it in another city. Ep. 10.81.4Ego mē audītūrum Nīcaeae respondī.I replied that I would hear it at Nicaea. Ep. 10.81.4Ubi cum cōnsēdissem cognitūrus, īdem Eumolpus tamquam sī adhūc parum īnstrūctus dīlātiōnem petere coepit, contrā Diōn ut audīrētur exigere.When I had taken my seat there to hear it, this same Eumolpus, as if he were still insufficiently prepared, began to ask for an adjournment, while Dio on the other hand demanded to be heard. Ep. 10.81.5Dicta sunt utrimque multa, etiam dē causā.Much was said on both sides, including about the merits of the case. Ep. 10.81.5Ego cum dandam dīlātiōnem et tē cōnsulendum exīstimārem in rē ad exemplum pertinentī, dīxī utrīque partī ut postulātiōnum suārum libellōs darent.Since I thought that an adjournment should be granted and that you should be consulted in a matter that would set a precedent, I told both parties to submit written statements of their claims.
Ep. 10.81.5Volēbam enim tē ipsōrum potissimum verbīs ea quae erant prōposita cognōscere.For I wanted you to learn what had been put forward preferably in their own words. Ep. 10.81.6Et Diōn quidem sē datūrum dīxit.And Dio for his part said that he would submit one. Ep. 10.81.6Eumolpus respondit complexūrum sē libellō quae reī pūblicae peteret, cēterum quod ad sepultōs pertinēret nōn accūsātōrem sē sed advocātum Flāvī Archippī, cuius mandāta pertulisset.Eumolpus replied that he would set out in a statement what he was claiming on behalf of the city, but that as far as the burials were concerned he was not the accuser but the advocate of Flavius Archippus, whose instructions he had conveyed. Ep. 10.81.6Archippus, cui Eumolpus sīcut Prūsiade assistēbat, dīxit sē libellum datūrum.Archippus, for whom Eumolpus was appearing as advocate, just as at Prusa, said that he would submit a statement. Ep. 10.81.6At nec Eumolpus nec Archippus quamquam plūrimīs diēbus exspectātī adhūc mihi libellōs dedērunt;But neither Eumolpus nor Archippus, though I have waited very many days for them, has yet given me a statement; Ep. 10.81.6Diōn dedit, quem huic epistulae iūnxī.Dio has given one, which I have attached to this letter.
Ep. 10.81.7Ipse in rē praesentī fuī et vīdī tuam quoque statuam in bibliothēcā positam, id autem in quō dīcuntur sepultī fīlius et uxor Diōnis in āreā collocātum, quae porticibus inclūditur.I myself have been to the spot and seen your statue too, placed in a library, and the building in which Dio's son and wife are said to be buried, situated in an open court which is enclosed by colonnades. Ep. 10.81.8Tē, domine, rogō ut mē in hōc praecipuē genere cognitiōnis regere dignēris, cum aliōquī magna sit exspectātiō, ut necesse est in eā rē quae et in cōnfessum vēnit et exemplīs dēfenditur.I ask you, sir, to deign to guide me above all in this kind of inquiry, since there is in any case great expectation, as there must be in a matter which is both admitted as fact and defended by precedents.