1.  You have very rightly and properly blamed me, right honourable and well beloved brother, in that ever since I departed from your reverence, conveying to Eustathius those propositions about the faith, I have told you neither much nor little about his business.  This neglect is really not due to any contempt on my part for the way in which he has treated me, but simply to the fact that the story is now published abroad in all men’s ears, and nobody needs any instructions from me in order to learn what his intentions are.  For this he has had good heed, as though he were really afraid that he would have few witnesses of his opinion, and has sent to the ends of the earth the letter which he has written against me.  He has therefore severed himself from communion with me.  He did not consent to meet me at the appointed spot, and did not bring his disciples, as he had promised.  On the contrary, he publicly stigmatized me in the public synods, with the Cilician Theophilus, Bishop of Castabala, whither he was translated from Eleutheropolis.  cf. Letters ccxliv. and ccxlv. by the open and undisguised slander of sowing in the souls of the people doctrines at variance with his own teaching.  This was quite enough to break up all union between us.  Afterwards he came to Cilicia, and, on meeting with a certain Gelasius, showed him the creed which only an Arian, or a thorough disciple of Arius, could subscribe.  Then, indeed, I was yet more confirmed in my alienation from him.  I felt that the Ethiopian will never change his skin, nor the leopard his spots, cf. Jer. xiii. 23. nor a man nurtured in doctrines of perversity ever be able to rub off the stain of his heresy.