Leontius
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I received your earlier letter with more pleasure than you can imagine.
I am well aware that writing now is an implicit admission that I was wrong not to write before.
I received your earlier letter too -- you can't imagine how gladly.
The man who brought me your second letter took off for Phoenicia.
You truly belong to the golden age, you who pour gold over my leaden words in your letters -- like that goldsmith in...
What happened was just as you predicted in your letter.
Therasius asked me to write to you, demonstrating his affection for both of us through this single gesture -- for he...
I too do not write often to you, but not more seldom than you do to me, though many have travelled hitherward from your part of the world. If you had sent a letter by every one of them, one after the other, there would have been nothing to prevent my seeming to be actually in your company, and enjoying it as though we had been together, so unint...
The excellent Julianus seems to get some good for his private affairs out of the general condition of things. Everything nowadays is full of taxes demanded and called in, and he too is vehemently dunned and indicted. Only it is a question not of arrears of rates and taxes, but of letters.
Herodotus said that men's ears are less trustworthy than their eyes.
On the text: "If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
Truly, as you have written, many disturbances have swept through the churches.
Hilary, bishop of Rome, to Leontius, most beloved brother, greetings.
Hilary, bishop of Rome, to Leontius, most beloved brother.
Hilary, bishop of Rome, to Leontius, bishop of Arles, greetings.
Hilary, bishop of Rome, to Leontius of Arles, greetings.
Hilary, bishop of Rome, to our beloved brothers Leontius, Veranius, and Victorius, greetings.
The reverence I owe your holy way of life and the affection I bear you personally have joined forces to compel this...
I give thanks that you both care about my well-being and took the trouble to refresh me with the fresh vegetables...
Since in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some indeed to honour but some to dishonour 2 Timothy 2:20, who can be ignorant that in the bosom of the Universal Church some as vessels of dishonour are deputed to the lowest uses, but others, as vessels of honour, are fitted for clean u...