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Without address.<br />

Letter XXXV. 2018<br />

I have written to you about many people as belonging to myself; now I mean to write<br />

about more. <strong>The</strong> poor can never fail, <strong>and</strong> I can never say, no. <strong>The</strong>re is no one more intimately<br />

associated with me, nor better able to do me kindnesses wherever he has the ability,<br />

than the reverend brother Leontius. So treat his house as if you had found me, not in that<br />

poverty in which now by God’s help I am living, but endowed with wealth <strong>and</strong> l<strong>and</strong>ed<br />

property. <strong>The</strong>re is no doubt that you would not have made me poor, but would have taken<br />

care of what I had, or even added to my possessions. This is the way I ask you to behave in<br />

the house of Leontius. You will get your accustomed reward from me; my prayers to the<br />

holy God for the trouble you are taking in shewing yourself a good man <strong>and</strong> true, <strong>and</strong> in<br />

anticipating the supplication of the needy.<br />

2018 Placed before 370.<br />

Without address.<br />

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