1.  I both wrote to your reverence by the vicar of Thrace, and sent other letters by one of the officers of the treasury of Philippopolis, who was starting from our country into Thrace, and begged him to take them on his departure.  But the vicar never received my letter, for while I was visiting my diocese, παροικία.  cf. p. 163, n. he came into town in the evening and started early in the morning, so that the church officers did not know of his coming, and the letter remained at my house.  The treasurer, too, on account of some unexpected and urgent business, set out without seeing me or taking my letters.  No one else could be found; so I remained, sorry at not being able to write to you and at not receiving any letter from your reverence.  Yet I was wishful, were it possible, to tell you all that happens to me day by day.  So many astonishing things happen as to need a daily narrative, and you may be sure that I would have written one, unless my mind had been diverted from its purpose by the pressure of events.