2. Know then that I am expecting to be
summoned by the wickedness of the heretics to the court, in the name of
peace. Learn too that on being so informed, this
bishop Maran (Vit.
Bas. vi) conjectures this bishop to be Meletius, and
refers to the beginning of Letter ccxvi. with an expression
of astonishment that Tillemont should refer this letter to the year
373. wrote to me to
hasten to Mesopotamia, and, after assembling together those who in
that country are of like sentiments with us, and are strengthening
the state of the Church, to travel in their company to the
emperor. But perhaps my health will not be good enough to
allow me to undertake a journey in the winter. Indeed,
hitherto I have not thought the matter pressing, unless you advise
it. I shall therefore await your counsel that my mind may be
made up. Lose no time then, I beg you, in making known to me,
by means of one of our trusty brethren, what course seems best to
the divinely guided intelligence of your
excellency.