Now it occurs to me to mention, that the report is true which I heard of thee whilst thou wast at Rome with the blessed father^ Linus, whom the deservedly-blessed Clement, a hearer of Peter and Paul, has now succeeded. And by this time thou hast added a hundred-fold to thy reputation ; and may thou, O woman ! still fur- ther increase it. I greatly desired to come unto you, that I might have rest with you ; but " the way of man is not in himself." 9 For the mili- tary guard [under which I am kept] hinders my purpose, and does not permit me to go further. Nor indeed, in the state I am now in, can I either do or suffer anything. Wherefore deem- ing the practice of writing the second resource