[Note] that these were the philosophers who went to Persia as envoys with Areobindos:[1] Damascius the Syrian,[2] Simplicius the Cilician,[3] Eulalius the Phrygian, Priscianus the Lydian, Hermeias[4] and Diogenes from Phoenicia, Isidorus of Gaza.[5] All of these returned home, bidding farewell to the hospitality of the barbarian; nevertheless they benefited from the visit not for a short time or in negligence, but from [this visit] their subsequent life turned out with a heart-pleasing and very pleasant [result]. For as the Romans and the Persians made a treaty and a covenant, part of what they wrote was that those men should return to their own customs and live in peace thereafter in their own homes, not being forced to hold any opinions beyond what seemed right to them or to change their inherited beliefs.[6]