Letter 10015: I have been asked to use my influence in a matter that touches your interest as well as mine; I raise it here...

"Not without a god," as Homer says — and you did not write this without the hand of Asclepius.

I should be more diligent in writing to you but for my belief that my letters do not always, my friend, reach your own hands. I am afraid that through the naughtiness of those on whose service I depend, especially at a time like this when the whole world is in a state of confusion, a great many other people get hold of them. So I wait to be foun...

We are truly in a desert with you gone — or rather, in something worse than a desert.

I assembled all my brethren the chorepiscopi at the synod of the blessed martyr Eupsychius to introduce them to your excellency. On account of your absence they must be brought before you by letter. Know, therefore, this brother as being worthy to be trusted by your intelligence, because he fears the Lord.

Having congratulated both you and your father -- him for his generosity toward you, you for pleasing your father...