Your last objection is, that the style is different.  This I cannot see.

This, then, is my defence.  I might, especially after all these accusations, speak in praise of this history of Susanna, dwelling on it word by word, and expounding the exquisite nature of the thoughts.  Such an encomium, perhaps, some of the learned and able students of divine things may at some other time compose.  This, however, is my answer to your strokes, as you call them.  Would that I could instruct you!  But I do not now arrogate that to myself.  My lord and dear brother Ambrosius, who has written this at my dictation, and has, in looking over it, corrected as he pleased, salutes you.  His faithful spouse, Marcella, and her children, also salute you.  Also Anicetus.  Do you salute our dear father Apollinarius, and all our friends.

Πρὸς τούτοις ἔφασκες καὶ τὸν τῆς φράσεως χαρακτῆρα διαλλάσσειν: ὅπερ ἐμοὶ οὐ πάνυ τι ἐφάνη. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἀπελογησάμην: ἦν δ' ἂν προηγουμένως μετὰ τὰ ἐγκλήματα ἐγκώμιον εἰπεῖν τῆς περὶ Σωσάνναν Γραφῆς ἐπιβαίνοντα ἑκάστῃ λέξει, καὶ δεικνύντα τὸ ἐξαίρετον τῶν νενοημένων: ὅπερ ἰδίᾳ τις τῶν φιλομαθῶς καὶ ἱκανῶς μεμελετηκότων τὰ θεῖα συντάξαι δυνήσεται. Ταῦτα πρὸς τὰ, ὡς φὴς, κρούματα ἀπεκρινάμην, καὶ ἀντιγράφω: εἴθε καὶ παιδεύειν δυναίμην! νυνὶ δὲ οὐ τηλικαῦτα ἐμαυτῷ δίδωμι. Προσαγορεύει σε ὁ συναγωνισάμενος τῇ ὑπαγορεύσει τῆς ἐπιστολῆς, καὶ παρατυχὼν πάσῃ αὐτῇ, ἐν οἷς βεβούληται διορθωσάμενος, κύριός μου καὶ ἀδελφὸς ἱερὸς Ἀμβρόσιος. Ἀσπάζεται δέ σε καὶ ἡ πιστοτάτη σύμβιος αὐτοῦ Μαρκέλλα ἅμα τοῖς τέκνοις, καὶ Ἀνίκητος. Σὺ τὸν καλὸν ἡμῶν πάπαν Ἀπολλινάριον ἄσπασαι, καὶ τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας ἡμᾶς.