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To Sophronius the Master.<br />

Letter CXCII. 2678<br />

With your extraordinary zeal in good deeds you have written to me to say that you<br />

yourself owe me double thanks; first, for getting a letter from me, <strong>and</strong> secondly, for doing<br />

me a service. What thanks, then, must not I owe you, both for reading your most delightful<br />

words, <strong>and</strong> for finding what I hoped for so quickly accomplished! <strong>The</strong> message was exceedingly<br />

gratifying on its own account, but it gave me much greater gratification from the fact<br />

that you were the friend to whom I owed the boon. God grant that ere long I may see you,<br />

<strong>and</strong> return you thanks in words, <strong>and</strong> enjoy the great pleasure of your society.<br />

as already in communion with him (Letter cciv.). Perhaps all that the meeting was desired to bring about was<br />

effected by correspondence. This is the explanation of the Ben. Ed.<br />

2678 Placed in 374.<br />

To Sophronius the Master.<br />

670

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