1.  The eagerness of my longing is soothed by the opportunities which the merciful God gives me of saluting your reverence.  He Himself is witness of the earnest desire which I have to see your face, and to enjoy your good and soul-refreshing instruction.  Now by my reverend and excellent brother Dorotheus, the deacon, who is setting out, first of all I beg you to pray for me that I be no stumbling block to the people, nor hindrance to your petitions to propitiate the Lord.  In the second place I would suggest that you would be so good as to make all arrangements through the aforementioned brother; and, if it seems well that a letter should be sent to the Westerns, because it is only right that communication should be made in writing even through our own messenger, that you will dictate the letter.  I have met Sabinus the deacon, sent by them, and have written to the bishops in Illyria, Italy, and Gaul, and to some of those who have written privately to myself.  For it is right that some one should be sent in the common interests of the Synod, conveying a second letter which I beg you to have written.