Letter 7003: I'm sending you a second letter so that my steady stream of words can be a comfort to us both.
Secundas ad amabilitatem tuam litteras mitto, ut sit adsiduitas sermonis mei utri-
20 que solacio. tu quoqne studium meum, quotiens domnus frater tuus occasiones rep-
pererit, aemulal*e, ut et salus tua mihi securitatem tribuat et scriptomm incnnditas
voluptatem. vale.
im a. 400.
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Our entire family both gains good things and escapes bad ones through you.
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.
Many blessings on Bacchius, who is both fine himself and a lover of fine things.
1. I have already heard of the persecution in Alexandria and the rest of Egypt, and, as might be expected, I am deeply affected. I have observed the ingenuity of the devil's mode of warfare.
If I knew how to revolve around the doors of the powerful, I would myself be one of the powerful.