Behold! I have sent you my speech, all streaming with sweat as I am! How should I be otherwise, when sending my speech to one who by his skill in oratory is able to shew that the wisdom of Plato and the ability of Demosthenes were belauded in vain? I feel like a gnat compared with an elephant. How I shiver and shake, as I reckon up the day when you will inspect my performance I am almost out of my wits!
Reproduced in full. Translation: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (Schaff and Wace, 1895), public domain (Public domain).