Florentius
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Cyprian — also known as Thascius — to Florentius, also known as Pupianus, his brother, greetings.
Many good things to you for your eagerness on my behalf -- but you seem to have quite forgotten about my body in...
When your letter arrived summoning Priscianus -- the dearest of all men to me -- a great buzz went through the city.
The man delivering this letter to you is a decent person who took on business from which others would have profited,...
As long as your goodwill toward us keeps growing, we'll keep needing to write to you about our friends.
There were many reasons -- compelling ones -- for Argyrius's son to stay home (he prefers to be called that rather...
Polianus has returned to us and reported the favors he received, and both he and I are grateful.
I think I am about to do something like those people who are so eager to see a friend returning after a long absence...
The letters of recommendation I send you on behalf of their bearers are written in the same hand but not with the...
I spent only a little time in your company, owing to my preoccupation with my teaching, and I count it as a real...
Sent to Florentius along with the preceding letter, which Jerome requests him to deliver to Rufinus. This Florentius was a rich Italian who had retired to Jerusalem to pursue the monastic life. Jerome subsequently speaks of him as a distinguished monk so pitiful to the needy that he was generally known as the father of the poor.
1. Your letter, dear friend, finds me dwelling in that quarter of the desert which is nearest to Syria and the Saracens. And the reading of it rekindles in my mind so keen a desire to set out for Jerusalem that I am almost ready to violate my monastic vow in order to gratify my affection.
In writing to your Greatness I am overreaching myself — but the cause of my daring is not self-confidence; it is the...
Truly the grace of our God and Savior has not yet abandoned the human race.