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To Otreius, bishop of Melitene. 2594<br />

Letter CLXXXI. 2593<br />

Your reverence is, I know, no less distressed than myself at the removal of the very Godbeloved<br />

bishop Eusebius. We both of us need comfort. Let us try to give it to one another.<br />

Do you write to me what you hear from Samosata, <strong>and</strong> I will report to you anything that I<br />

may learn from Thrace. 2595<br />

It is to me no slight alleviation of our present distress to know the constancy of the<br />

people. It will be the same to you to have news of our common father. Of course I cannot<br />

now tell you this by letter, but I commend to you one who is fully informed, <strong>and</strong> will report<br />

to you in what condition he left him, <strong>and</strong> how he bears his troubles. Pray, then, for him<br />

<strong>and</strong> for me that the Lord will grant him speedy release from his distress.<br />

2593 Placed in 374.<br />

2594 In Armenia Minor, now Malatia. Basil asks him for <strong>and</strong> offers sympathy in the exile of Eusebius. Otreius<br />

was at Tyana in 367, <strong>and</strong> at Constantinople in 381 (Labbe ii. 99 <strong>and</strong> 955).<br />

2595 Where Eusebius was in exile.<br />

To Otreius, bishop of Melitene.<br />

642<br />

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