Theodorus

Theodorus appears 5 times in this collection as a recipient of letters from major late antique correspondents. The name was extremely common in the late Roman world, and multiple Theodori appear across the letter collections. The letters to Theodorus contribute to the broader picture of late antique communication networks — the constant flow of letters that held together a world without telephones, newspapers, or reliable postal services.
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From Basil of Caesareac. 364

It is sometimes said that slaves to the passion of love, when by some inevitable necessity they are separated from the object of their desire, are able to stay the violence of their passion by indulging the sense of sight, if haply they can look at the picture of the beloved object. Whether this be true or not I cannot say; but what has befallen...

basil caesarea #124
From Augustine of Hippoc. 396

1. I have resolved to commit to writing in this letter what I said when you and I were conversing together as to the terms on which we would welcome clergy of the party of Donatus desiring to become Catholics, in order that, if any one asked you what are our sentiments and practice in regard to this, you might exhibit these by producing what I h...

augustine hippo #61
From Theodoret of Cyrrhusc. 440
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From Pope Leo the Greatc. 443

Seeing that our most Christian and merciful Emperor, in his holy and praiseworthy faith and anxiety for the peace of the Catholic Church, has sent us a letter upon the matters which have roused the din of disturbance among you, we wonder, brother, that you have been able to keep silence to us upon the scandal that has been caused, and that you ...

leo great #23
From Pope Leo the Greatc. 444

He acknowledges their zeal and refers them to the Tome To his well-beloved sons Faustus, Martinus, and the rest of the archimandrites, Leo the bishop. As on behalf of the faith which Eutyches has tried to disturb, I was sending legates de latere to assist the defense of the Truth, I thought it fitting that I should address a letter to you also,...

leo great #32