I desired, when in
Orphanene, A
district in Armenia Minor. Ramsay, Hist. Geog. A.M.
314. to see your
excellency; I had also hoped that while you were living at
Corsagæna, there would have been nothing to hinder your coming to
me at a synod which I had expected to hold at Attagæna; since,
however, I failed to hold it, my desire was to see you in the
hill-country; for here again Evesus, cf.
Ep. ccli. p. 291. Euassai or Evesus is about fifty
miles north of Cæsarea. being in that
neighbourhood, held out hopes of our meeting. But since I have
been disappointed on both occasions, I determined to write and beg that
you would deign to visit me; for I think it is but right and proper
that the young man should come to the old. Furthermore, at our
meeting, I would make you a tender of my advice, touching your
negotiations with certain at Cæsarea: a right conclusion of
the matter calls for my intervention. If agreeable then, do not
be backward in coming to me.