Letter CCLXXVIII.1499    Placed in the episcopate.

To Valerianus.

I desired, when in Orphanene,1500    A district in Armenia Minor.  Ramsay, Hist. Geog. A.M. 314. to see your excellency; I had also hoped that while you were living at Corsagæna, there would have been nothing to hinder your coming to me at a synod which I had expected to hold at Attagæna; since, however, I failed to hold it, my desire was to see you in the hill-country; for here again Evesus,1501    cf. Ep. ccli. p. 291.  Euassai or Evesus is about fifty miles north of Cæsarea. being in that neighbourhood, held out hopes of our meeting.  But since I have been disappointed on both occasions, I determined to write and beg that you would deign to visit me; for I think it is but right and proper that the young man should come to the old.  Furthermore, at our meeting, I would make you a tender of my advice, touching your negotiations with certain at Cæsarea:  a right conclusion of the matter calls for my intervention.  If agreeable then, do not be backward in coming to me.

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[1] Ἐγὼ τὴν εὐγένειάν σου καὶ κατὰ τὴν Ὀρφανήνην γενόμενος ἐπεθύμουν ἰδεῖν. Προσεδόκων γάρ σε ἐν Κορσαγαίνοις διάγοντα μὴ ὀκνῆσαι πρὸς ἡμᾶς διαβῆναι ἐν Ἀτταγαίνοις τελοῦντα σύνοδον. Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐκείνης διήμαρτον τῆς συνόδου, ἐπεθύμουν ἰδεῖν ἐν τῷ ὄρει. Πάλιν γὰρ ἐκεῖ ἡ Εὐήσας, πλησίον οὖσα, τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆς συντυχίας ἐπέτεινεν. Ὡς δὲ ἀμφοτέρων διήμαρτον, ἦλθον ἐπὶ τὸ γράφειν, ἵνα καταξιώσῃς με καταλαβεῖν, ὁμοῦ μὲν τὸ εἰκὸς ποιῶν νέος φοιτῶν παρὰ γέροντι, ὁμοῦ δὲ καὶ διὰ τῆς συντυχίας δεχόμενός τινα παρ' ἡμῶν συμβουλὴν διὰ τὸ εἶναί σοι πράγματα πρός τινας τῶν ἐν Καισαρείᾳ τὰ δεόμενα τῆς ἡμετέρας μεσιτείας πρὸς τὴν διόρθωσιν. Ἐὰν οὖν ἀνεπαχθὲς ᾖ, μὴ κατοκνήσῃς ἡμᾶς καταλαβεῖν.