Julian

“ To Leontius
[361 From Naissa or Constantinople] The Thurian historian [1] said that men's ears are less to be trusted than their eyes. [2] 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, [3] that, while in all respects you show yourself a man, you surpass yourself [4] in your achievements "with hand and foot," as Homer says. ”