I find few opportunities of writing to your reverence, and this causes me no little trouble.  It is just the same as if, when it was in my power to see you and enjoy your society very often, I did so but seldom.  But it is impossible for me to write to you because so few travel hence to you, otherwise there is no reason why my letter should not be a kind of journal of my life, to tell you, my dear friend, everything that happens to me day by day.  It is a comfort to me to tell you my affairs, and I know that you care for nothing more than for what concerns me.  Now, however, Elpidius It is doubtful whether this Elpidius is to be identified with any other of the same name mentioned in the letters. is going home to his own master, to refute the calumnies falsely got up against him by certain enemies, and he has asked me for a letter.  I therefore salute your reverence by him and commend to you a man who deserves your protection, at once for the sake of justice and for my own sake.  Although I could say nothing else in his favour, yet, because he has made it of very great importance to be the bearer of my letter, reckon him among our friends, and remember me and pray for the Church.