Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 278

by Philip Schaff et al.

Letter CCLXXVIII.^[1]

To Valerianus.

I desired, when in Orphanene,^[2] to see your excellency; I had also hoped that while you were living at Corsagæna, there would have been nothing to hinder your coming to me at a synod which I had expected to hold at Attagæna; since, however, I failed to hold it, my desire was to see you in the hill-country; for here again Evesus,^[3] being in that neighbourhood, held out hopes of our meeting. But since I have been disappointed on both occasions, I determined to write and beg that you would deign to visit me; for I think it is but right and proper that the young man should come to the old. Furthermore, at our meeting, I would make you a tender of my advice, touching your negotiations with certain at Cæsarea: a right conclusion of the matter calls for my intervention. If agreeable then, do not be backward in coming to me.

Footnotes

1. Placed in the episcopate.
2. A district in Armenia Minor. Ramsay, Hist. Geog. A.M. 314.
3. cf. Ep. ccli. p. 291. Euassai or Evesus is about fifty miles north of Cæsarea.