Letter 10004: The public games require animals from the provinces, and the provincial governors have been less cooperative than...

To Κυρίλλῳ. (361)

I have read the letter of your holiness, in which you have expressed your distress at the unhappy governor of Libya. I am grieved that my own country should have given birth to and nurtured such vices. I am grieved too that Libya, a neighbouring country, should suffer from our evils, and should have been delivered to the inhumanity of a man whos...

Twice cabbage is death, says the unkind proverb. I, however, though I have called for it often, shall die once. Yes: even though I had never called for it at all!

To the most reverend Theodora.

It is time for you to call the Nile a small river, since you also call yourself small in eloquence.