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To Valerianus.<br />

Letter CCLXXVIII. 3235<br />

I desired, when in Orphanene, 3236 to see your excellency; I had also hoped that while<br />

you were living at Corsagæna, there would have been nothing to hinder your coming to me<br />

at a synod which I had expected to hold at Attagæna; since, however, I failed to hold it, my<br />

desire was to see you in the hill-country; for here again Evesus, 3237 being in that neighbourhood,<br />

held out hopes of our meeting. But since I have been disappointed on both occasions,<br />

I determined to write <strong>and</strong> beg that you would deign to visit me; for I think it is but right<br />

<strong>and</strong> proper that the young man should come to the old. Furthermore, at our meeting, I<br />

would make you a tender of my advice, touching your negotiations with certain at Cæsarea:<br />

a right conclusion of the matter calls for my intervention. If agreeable then, do not be<br />

backward in coming to me.<br />

3235 Placed in the episcopate.<br />

3236 A district in Armenia Minor. Ramsay, Hist. Geog. A.M. 314.<br />

3237 cf. Ep. ccli. p. 291. Euassai or Evesus is about fifty miles north of Cæsarea.<br />

To Valerianus.<br />

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