25. Eunapius reports that Libanius refused the honorary rank
of Praetorian praefect, as less illustrious than the title
of Sophist (in Vit. Sophist. p. 135 [p. 175, ed. Comm.]).
The critics have observed a similar sentiment in one of the
epistles (xviii. [p. 7] ed. Wolf) of Libanius himself.