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To Amiochus. 2516<br />

Letter CLVII. 2515<br />

You may well imagine how disappointed I was not to meet you in the summer; not that<br />

our meeting in former years was enough to satisfy me, but even to see loved objects in a<br />

dream brings those who love some comfort. But you do not even write, so sluggish are you,<br />

<strong>and</strong> I think your absence can be referred to no other cause than that you are slow to undertake<br />

journeys for affection’s sake. On this point I will say no more. Pray for me, <strong>and</strong> ask the<br />

Lord not to desert me, but as He has brought me out of bygone temptations so also to deliver<br />

me from those that I await, for the glory of the name of Him in Whom I put my trust.<br />

2515 Placed in 373.<br />

2516 cf. Letters cxlvi. <strong>and</strong> ccxxxix. Maran. (Vit. Bas). is of opinion that as these two letters, clvii. <strong>and</strong> clviii.,<br />

written at the same time, are very much in the same terms, they cannot be to the same person, <strong>and</strong> thinks that<br />

the sluggishness, which Basil complains of, fits with Eusebius much better than with Antiochus, who could not<br />

travel without his uncle’s permission.<br />

To Amiochus.<br />

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