Letter 78: Chrysostom praises Romanus's famous love and asks for letters and prayers.

The report of your love and of the disposition you have constantly shown toward us has reached not only as far as Armenia and the country of the Cappadocians, but even farther, clearer than a trumpet. For this reason we too are greatly adorned by your piety's disposition, and we do not stop calling you blessed. We ask you to write to us continually about your health. Even though we sit in a wilderness and are settled far from you, nevertheless we are bound to you by the chain of love, keeping now the same disposition we showed toward your honor from the beginning, or rather one much greater and warmer. Neither length of time nor length of road has made you more sluggish in this; rather, it has made you more earnest. Knowing this, then, my most honorable and devout master, and considering what a great favor you will grant us by writing more continually, write to us about your health. Above all, remember us always in your holy prayers, so that, sitting at such a distance, we may gain from there also your alliance.

ΟΗʹ. Ῥωμανῷ πρεσβυτέρῳ. Οὐ μέχρι τῆς Ἀρμενίας μόνον, οὐδὲ τῆς Καππαδόκων χώρας, ἀλλὰ καὶ ποῤῥωτέρω, τῆς ἀγάπης σου καὶ τῆς διαθέσεως, ἣν περὶ ἡμᾶς ἐπεδείξω διηνεκῶς, σάλπιγγος λαμπροτέρα ἡ φήμη παραγέγονε. ∆ιόπερ καὶ ἡμεῖς σφόδρα καλλωπιζόμεθα ἐπὶ τῇ διαθέσει τῆς εὐλαβείας σου, καὶ μακαρίζοντές σε οὐ διαλιμπάνομεν, καί σου δεόμεθα συνεχῶς ἐπιστέλλειν ἡμῖν περὶ τῆς ὑγείας τῆς σῆς. Εἰ γὰρ καὶ ἐν ἐρημίᾳ καθήμεθα, καὶ πόῤῥω ὑμῶν ἀπῳκίσμεθα, ἀλλ' ὅμως τῇ τῆς ἀγάπης ἁλύσει συνδεδέμεθά σοι, ἣν ἐξ ἀρχῆς διάθεσιν περὶ τὴν σὴν τιμιότητα ἐπεδειξάμεθα, ταύτην, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ πολλῷ πλείονα καὶ θερμοτέραν νῦν ἔχοντες. Οὐδὲν γὰρ ὑμᾶς οὔτε τοῦ χρόνου τὸ πλῆθος, οὔτε τῆς ὁδοῦ τὸ μῆκος ῥᾳθυμοτέρους εἰς τοῦτο πεποίηκεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ σπουδαιοτέρους. Ταῦτ' οὖν εἰδὼς, δέσποτά μου τιμιώτατε καὶ εὐλαβέστατε, καὶ λογισάμενος ἡλίκην ἡμῖν χαριῇ χάριν συνεχέστερον ἐπιστέλλων, γράφε ἡμῖν τὰ περὶ τῆς ὑγείας τῆς σῆς, καὶ προηγουμένως διηνεκῶς ἐν ταῖς ἁγίαις σου μεμνημένος εὐχαῖς· ἵνα καὶ ἐκ τοσούτου καθήμενοι διαστήματος, πολλὴν καὶ ἐντεῦθεν καρπωσώμεθα τὴν συμμαχίαν.