Letter 127: I saw Dositheus after a long time, and he was pale.
**To Philagrius** (359/60)
When I saw Dositheus after a long absence, looking pale, I asked whether illness had made him so. Then I heard that it was not illness, but the close confinement of his work — for he said he had shut himself up to write. I praised him for it and congratulated you that not even your household servant is idle. Ask him, too, about your sons — he will not tell you a lie.
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