Letter CCLXXVIII.
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To Valerianus.
I
desired
, when in
Orphanene,
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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,
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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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Placed in the
episcopate.
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A
district in Armenia Minor. Ramsay,
Hist. Geog. A.M.
314.
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cf
.
Ep
. ccli. p. 291. Euassai or Evesus is about fifty
miles north of Cæsarea.