Letter 10072: The years accumulate their losses as well as their satisfactions, and the late summer has brought one of each; I...
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Could this have been hoped or expected by us, that now by our brother Severus we should have to claim the answer which your love has not yet written to us, so long and so impatiently desiring your reply? Why have we been doomed through two summers (and these in the parched land of Africa) to bear this thirst? What more can I say?
A second letter to Heraclius that contrasts gratitude for letters with gratitude for deeds.
It delights me to write frequently to those whose loving disposition toward me I have confirmed by clear evidence.
Everything goes according to my wishes when I am granted the knowledge of your good health.
1. Oh how I wish that I could continually say one thing to you! It is this: Let us shake off the burden of unprofitable cares, and bear only those which are useful.