Letter XXXV.
2018
Without address
.
I
have
written to you
about many people as belonging to myself; now I mean to write about
more. The poor can never fail, and I can never say, no.
There is no one more intimately associated with me, nor better able to
do me kindnesses wherever he has the ability, than the reverend brother
Leontius. So treat his house as if you had found me, not in that
poverty in which now by God’s help I am living, but endowed with
wealth and landed property. There is no doubt that you would not
have made me poor, but would have taken care of what I had, or even
added to my possessions. This is the way I ask you to behave in
the house of Leontius. You will get your accustomed reward from
me; my prayers to the holy God for the trouble you are taking in
shewing yourself a good man and true, and in anticipating the
supplication of the needy.
2018
Placed before
370.