返回Letter CXVIII1
Letter CXVIII1
Letter CXVIII1
To Jovinus, Bishop of Perrha.2
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.
1: Placed at the end of 372 or the beginning of 373.
2: The mss. vary between Jovinus and Jobinus. cf . Theodoret, Ecc. Hist . iv. 13.