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shaped their studies. His view was that it was derived from three disparate sources, the first being the six books edited and published by Libanius himself in Julian’s day; the second comprising all the remainder except for the gleanings of Epp.
1–17, derived from the duplicate files left by Libanius at his death; and the third, these gleanings themselves, externally obtained by his editor and literary executor after his death from the family archives of the individual recipients.
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Of these views the first was disproved first by Silomon and then by Foerster. No exception can be taken to the second which appears eminently sensible. However, Seeck’s view of the provenance of Epp. 1–17, which is crucial to his hypothesis, seems highly improbable, for all that it has gained the approval of Foerster and later scholars.
One can but wonder at the success of such an individual in opening up the archives of two praetorian prefects and one emperor some fifty years after the writing of some of