Letter 187: Chrysostom remembers Procopius's genuine love and asks him to write about his health.

We spent only a little time with you there, my admirable master, but we had strong experience of your genuine love, your calm soul, and your warm and sincere disposition. For this reason, though we are settled at the ends of the inhabited world and carried away into the furthest wilderness, we carry you everywhere with us, engraved on our conscience. From so far away, then, we write and give the greeting that is owed. We ask your Grace, if it is not burdensome, to give us this favor in return: send good news of your health. We learn something of it even when you do not write, by asking those who come from your region, because we care so deeply about your health and reputation. But we want to hear it from your own tongue and hand, so that both writing and receiving your letter may give us a double pleasure.

ΡΠΖʹ. Προκοπίῳ. Ὀλίγα μέν σοι συνεγενόμεθα αὐτόθι, δέσποτά μου θαυμασιώτατε, πολλὴν δέ σου τὴν πεῖραν τῆς γνησίας εἰλήφαμεν ἀγάπης, καὶ τῆς ἀπράγμονος ψυχῆς, καὶ τῆς γνησίας καὶ θερμῆς διαθέσεως. ∆ιὸ καὶ πρὸς αὐτὰ τῆς οἰκουμένης ἀπῳκισθέντες τὰ τέρματα, καὶ πρὸς αὐτὴν τὴν ἐσχάτην ἐρημίαν ἀπενεχθέντες, διὰ τὸ πανταχοῦ σε περιφέρειν, ὅπουπερ ἂν ἀπίωμεν, καὶ ἔχειν ἐγκεκολαμμένον τῷ συνειδότι, καὶ γράφομεν ἐκ τοσούτου διαστήματος, καὶ τὴν ὀφειλομένην ἀποδιδόαμεν πρόσρησιν· καί σου παρακαλοῦμεν τὴν ἐμμέλειαν, εἰ μὴ βαρὺ καὶ ἐπαχθὲς, καὶ αὐτὸν ἡμῖν ταύτην παρέχειν τὴν χάριν, καὶ τὰ περὶ τῆς ὑγείας εὐαγγελίζεσθαι ἡμᾶς τῆς σῆς. Μανθάνομεν γὰρ αὐτὰ καὶ μὴ γράφοντος, τοὺς ἐκεῖθεν ἀφικνουμένους ἐρωτῶντες, διὰ τὸ σφόδρα περισπούδαστον εἶναι ἡμῖν εἰδέναι τὰ περὶ τῆς ῥώσεως τῆς σῆς καὶ τῆς εὐδοκιμήσεως· βουλόμεθα δὲ καὶ παρὰ τῆς γλώττης τῆς σῆς, καὶ παρὰ τῆς χειρὸς τῆς σῆς ταῦτα δηλοῦσθαι, ὥστε διπλῆν ἡμᾶς καρποῦσθαι τὴν ἡδονὴν, ἀπό τε τοῦ γράφειν, ἀπό τε τοῦ γράμματα δέχεσθαι παρὰ τῆς εὐγενείας τῆς σῆς. ∆ίδου δὲ ταύτην ἡμῖν τὴν χάριν, ἡδίστην τε οὖσαν καὶ εὔλογον, καὶ πολλὴν ἡμῖν παρέχουσαν τὴν εὐφροσύνην.