Letter CXVIII.
2393
To Jovinus, Bishop of Perrha
.
2394
You
owe me a good turn.
For I lent you a kindness, which I ought to get back with
interest;—a kind of interest, this, which our Lord does not
refuse. Pay me, then, my friend, by paying me a visit. So
much for the capital; what of the increment? It is the fact of
the visit being paid by you, who are a man as much superior to me, as
fathers are better than children.
2393
Placed at the
end of 372 or the beginning of 373.
2394
The
mss.
vary between Jovinus and
Jobinus.
cf
. Theodoret,
Ecc. Hist
. iv.
13.