Letter 57: Chrysostom continues writing to Adolia and asks for more news of her household's health.

Even if you write rarely yourself, we will not stop writing to your nobility whenever we find people traveling from here to there. We wanted to see you come here, and we greatly desire it. But since this perhaps seemed difficult to your nobility, even though the troubles from the Isaurians have completely ceased, we will at least not stop giving ourselves the comfort of writing continually to your honor. Whenever we find a letter-carrier going there, we reap no ordinary gladness by writing to you. Knowing this, then, my most modest and devout lady, make the effort yourself to write to us continually about your health and cheerfulness. Just as we make no complaint about your absence, because the matter seems to have some difficulty, so we will not stop finding fault with your long silence, because we so greatly desire to learn continually about your health and that of your whole household.

ΝΖʹ. Ἀδολίᾳ. Ἡμεῖς, κἂν αὐτὴ σπανιάκις ἐπιστέλλῃς, οὐ παυσόμεθα, ὁσάκις ἂν ἐπιτύχωμεν τῶν ἐντεῦθεν ἐκεῖσε ἀφικνουμένων, γράφοντες πρὸς τὴν εὐγένειαν τὴν σήν. Ἐβουλόμεθα μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἐνταῦθά σε παραγενομένην ἰδεῖν, καὶ σφόδρα τοῦτο ἐπιθυμοῦμεν. Ἀλλ' ἐπειδὴ τοῦτο ἐργῶδες ἴσως κατεφάνη σου τῇ εὐγενείᾳ τὰ γὰρ τῶν Ἰσαύρων πέπαυται παντελῶς, τὴν γοῦν ἀπὸ τοῦ γράφειν συνεχῶς τῇ τιμιότητί σου παράκλησιν οὐ παυσόμεθα παρέχοντες ἑαυτοῖς. Καὶ γὰρ ὁσάκις ἂν ἐπιτύχωμεν γραμματηφόρου ἐκεῖσε παραγινομένου, οὐ τὴν τυχοῦσαν καρπούμεθα εὐφροσύνην ἐπιστέλλοντές σου τῇ τιμιότητι. Τοῦτ' οὖν εἰδυῖα, κυρία μου κοσμιωτάτη καὶ εὐλαβεστάτη, καὶ αὐτὴ σπουδὴν ποιεῖσθαι παρακλήθητι τοῦ συνεχῶς ἡμῖν ἐπιστέλλειν τὰ περὶ τῆς ὑγείας τῆς σῆς καὶ εὐθυμίας. Ὥσπερ γὰρ τῆς ἀποδημίας ἕνεκεν οὐδὲν ἐγκαλοῦμεν. διὰ τὸ δόξαι δυσκολίαν ἔχειν τὸ πρᾶγμα· οὕτω τῆς σιγῆς ἕνεκεν τῆς μακρᾶς οὐ παυσόμεθα αἰτιώμενοι, διὰ τὸ σφόδρα ἐπιθυμεῖν συνεχῶς μανθάνειν τὰ περὶ τῆς ῥώσεως τῆς σῆς καὶ οἴκου σου παντός.