Anatolius, Constantinopolitan
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Even while you were still with us, I received several letters of recommendation.
After suffering many physical ailments -- having barely recovered from some and still bearing others -- I have one...
The story goes that Syloson [a man from Samos who once gave the future Persian king Darius a cloak, and later asked...
I have always admired your goodwill toward me, and I could never convince myself that you did this without some god...
Your habit of mocking the sophists is old and well-established, and apparently the Pythia [the oracle at Delphi]...
I was sitting with my uncle in conversation when someone walked up and handed him a letter.
The noble Spectatus has captured me so completely, and so thoroughly persuaded me to devote all my attention to him,...
I write to you often, and I rather wish you would not write back.
Other men take pride in various things, but Severus takes pride in being my friend.
Right now we are exerting ourselves over a matter of the greatest importance, and if you are willing, you will have...
What was expected has come to pass.
A letter reached me from Italy describing the nonsense of some sham sophist and your laughter at him, together with...
Even if I did not get what I wanted when I wanted it, I did in the end get what I wanted.
Iamblichus left us in tears, saying, "Will I ever see the East again?
That was unmistakably your letter.
May your sacrifices go well, and may you find favor with the gods -- with the leader of the Muses and with the god...
To the Patrician Anatolius,
The most holy lord Archbishop Domnus has arranged for the devout bishops to travel to the imperial city, to bring a...
God will repay your excellency for the kindness you have shown me -- everything done for His sake carries its reward.
Your excellency is fully aware of the acts of the "most righteous" judges at Ephesus.
The Lord who watches over and governs all things has now demonstrated both the apostolic truth of my teaching and...
I have warmly welcomed the rest that has come my way, and I am enjoying its pleasant fruits.
Leo, the bishop, to Anatolius, the bishop. We rejoice in the Lord and glory in the gift of His Grace, Who has shown you a follower of Gospel-teaching as we have found from your letter, beloved, and our brothers' account whom we sent to Constantinople: for now through the approved faith of the priest, we are justifying in presuming that the whole...
Leo, the bishop, to the bishop Anatolius. Although I hope, beloved, you are devoted to every good work, yet that your activity may be rendered the more effective, it was needful and fitting to dispatch my brothers Lucentius the bishop and Basil the presbyter, as we promised, to ally themselves with you, beloved, that nothing may be done either ...
Leo, the bishop, to Anatolius, the bishop. Now that the light of Gospel Truth has been manifested, as we wished, through God's grace, and the night of most pestilential error has been dispelled from the universal Church, we are unspeakably glad in the Lord, because the difficult charge entrusted to us has been brought to the desired conclusion, ...
The man who devised laborious duties and offices of great diligence also reasonably established fixed terms for them...
Those who have returned from the Istrian schism [a schism in northern Italy and the Balkans over the Council of...
Source. Translated by James Barmby. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol.
The men who accompany this letter are sent by Constantius, bishop of Milan, on business that has brought them to...
The bearer of this letter is the deacon of Marinianus, bishop of Ravenna, who has come to Constantinople on behalf...
Your Love has written to me that our most pious lord orders a successor to be appointed to my most reverend brother John, bishop of Prima Justiniana, on account of the ailment of the head from which he suffers, lest perchance that city, while without the jurisdiction of a bishop, should be ruined by its enemies, which God forbid. And yet the can...
Marcellinus, a man of excellent standing who bears this letter, is traveling to your city and has need of such...