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== Works ==
*64 [[oration]]s in the three fields of oratory: judicial, deliberative and epideictic, both orations as if delivered in public and orations meant to be privately read (aloud) in the study. The two volumes of selections in the [[Loeb Classical Library]] devote one volume to Libanius' orations that bear on the emperor Julian, the other on Theodosius; the most famous is his "Lamentation" about the desecration of the temples (Or. XXX: {{lang|grc|Περὶ τῶν Ἱερῶν}} or ''Pro templis'');
*51 {{transliteration|grc|[[declamation|declamationes]]}}, a traditional public-speaking format of Rhetoric in Antiquity, taking set topics with historical and [[Greek mythology|mythological]] themes (translations into English by e.g. D.A. Russell), "Libanius: Imaginary Speeches"; M. Johansson, "Libanius' Declamations 9 and 10"; 
*96 {{transliteration|grc|progymnasmata}} or compositional exercises for students of rhetoric, used in his courses of instruction and widely admired as models of good style;
*57 {{transliteration|grc|hypotheses}} or introductions to [[Demosthenes]]' orations (written {{c.|352}}), in which he sets them in historical context for the novice reader, without polemics; 
*1545 letters have been preserved, more letters than those of Cicero. Some 400 additional letters in Latin were later accepted, purporting to be translations, but a dispassionate examination of the texts themselves shows them to be misattributed or forgeries, by the Italian [[humanism|humanist]] Francesco Zambeccari in the 15th century. Among his correspondents there was [[Censorius Datianus]].
*{{cite book|last=Libanius| url = https://archive.org/details/operarecensuitri10libauoft/page/n5/mode/2up| series = Opera| title = Epistulae|translator = [[Richard Foerster (classical scholar)|Richard Foerster]]| year = 1903| publisher = Lipsiae In aedibus B.G. Teubneri}}