Letters - Letter 118

Letter CXVIII¹

Letter CXVIII¹ To Jovinus, Bishop of Perrha.²

You owe me a good turn. For I lent you a kindness, which I ought to get back with interest;- a kind of interest, this, which our Lord does not refuse. Pay me, then, my friend, by paying me a visit. So much for the capital; what of the increment? It is the fact of the visit being paid by you, who are a man as much superior to me, as fathers are better than children.

¹: Placed at the end of 372 or the beginning of 373.

²: The mss. vary between Jovinus and Jobinus. cf . Theodoret, Ecc. Hist . iv. 13.