Letter 208

208. To Eulancius.

You have kept silence a long time, and that too, being a man most fond of talk, who have made it your study and your art always to be saying something and to display yourself through your words. But it seems that Neocaesarea is the cause of your silence toward us. And it seems that, in place of a favor, we receive the boon of not being mentioned among those there — since the memory of us is not a good thing, according to the talk of those who hear it. But you were long ago among those hated for our sake, not among those who endure to hate us for the sake of others. Be then the same man, both writing wherever you may be, and remembering us as is fitting, if you have any care for justice. For it is surely just that those who began with love be repaid in equal measure.