Letter 231: Chrysostom tells Adolia that he wants letters about her health and good spirits.

We have often written to your Reverence, but "often" is not enough for us. We would like to do this every day. You know how we feel toward your Kindness. Since that is not possible, we give ourselves the greatest favor whenever we can by paying the greeting we owe you. We continually want to learn about your health and good spirits. Knowing what a gift you give us by writing these things, please make it your regular work to send them. We were not a little hurt that you did not write when my honored lord Libanius, a man known to almost everyone and dear to us, was coming here. Perhaps you did not know, but that too pains us, because it means you do not know who is traveling from there to us. We never stop looking carefully for those who go from here to you, so that through them we may fulfill our desire: to write continually to your Kindness.

ΣΛΑʹ. Ἀδολίᾳ Πολλάκις μὲν ἐπεστάλκαμέν σου πρὸς τὴν εὐλάβειαν, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἀρκεῖ τοῦτο τὸ πολλάκις ἡμῖν, ἀλλ' ἐβουλόμεθα μὲν καθ' ἑκάστην ἡμέραν τοῦτο ποιεῖν. Οἶσθα γὰρ ὅπως διακείμεθα περὶ τὴν ἐμμέλειαν τὴν σήν. Ἐπειδὴ δὲ τοῦτο οὐκ ἔνι, ἡνίκα ἂν ἐξῇ, ἡμῖν αὐτοῖς τὰ μέγιστα χαριζόμενοι τὴν ὀφειλομένην ἀποπληροῦμεν πρόσρησιν, συνεχῶς καὶ διηνεκῶς βουλόμενοι μανθάνειν τὰ περὶ τῆς ὑγείας τῆς σῆς, καὶ τῆς εὐθυμίας. Παρακαλῶ τοίνυν, εἰδυῖα ἡλίκα ἡμῖν χαρίζῃ ταῦτα ἐπιστέλλουσα, ἔργον ποιήσασθαι τοῦτο παρακλήθητι, τὸ συνεχῶς ἡμῖν ταῦτα ἐπιστέλλειν. Ἐπεὶ καὶ νῦν οὐχ ὡς ἔτυχεν ἠλγήσαμεν, ὅτι ἀνδρὸς πᾶσιν, ὡς εἰπεῖν, γνωρίμου, καὶ ἡμῖν ἀγαπητοῦ, μέλλοντος ἐνταῦθα παραγενέσθαι, τοῦ κυρίου μου τοῦ τιμιωτάτου Λιβανίου, οὐκ ἐπέστειλας ἡμῖν, ἀγνοήσασα μὲν ἴσως· πλὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ δι' αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἀλγοῦμεν, ὅτι ἀγνοεῖς τοὺς ἐκεῖθεν πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐρχομένους. Ἡμεῖς γὰρ οὐ παυόμεθα περιεργαζόμενοι καὶ πολυπραγμονοῦντες τοὺς ἐντεῦθεν πρὸς ὑμᾶς παραγενομένους, ἡνίκα ἂν ἐξῇ, δι' ἐκείνων ἡμῖν τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν τὴν ἑαυτῶν πληροῦντες· αὕτη δέ ἐστι τὸ συνεχῶς ἐπιστέλλειν πρὸς τὴν σὴν ἐμμέλειαν.