Letter 21: Aeneas asks Dorotheus to support a poor sacred minister.

Most people, as the saying goes, rush into holy things with unwashed feet, like Plato's bald bronze-smith, who still smelled of smoke and foulness when he rose up against his mistress. You, however, pass from holy thing to holy thing, from philosophy to priesthood. The man carrying this letter is also a servant of holy things, and therefore he is yours. He loves quiet, and somehow, after learning that a mountain is consecrated to God because its solitude makes it fit for stillness, he is making his way there. But poverty stands in the way, along with poverty's contrivances. You can undo them by ordering the priests in the middle of the region to support the man until he reaches the mountain.