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| To Flavian, Bishop of Constantinople.
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Letter XXXIX.
To Flavian, Bishop of
Constantinople.
Leo, the bishop, to Flavian, the bishop.
He rebukes Flavian for not answering his repeated
letters.
Our anxiety is increased by your silence, for it
is long now since we received a letter from you, beloved: while
we who bear a chief share in your cares361
| 361 Curarum tuarum
principes. | ,
through our anxiety for the defence of the Faith, have several
times362
| 362 Frequenter,
four times in all ( Letters XXVII., XXVIII., XXXVI. and XXXVIII.). | , as occasion served, sent letters to
you: that we might aid you with the comfort of our exhortations
not to yield to the assaults of your adversaries in defence of the
Faith, but to feel that we were the sharers in your labour. Some
time since we believe our messengers have reached you, brother, through
whom you find yourself fully instructed by our writings and
injunctions, and we have ourselves sent back Basil to you as you
desired363
| 363 This must be in the
third lost letter to which we have assumed Lett. XXXVIII. to be an
answer. | . Now, lest you should think we had
omitted any opportunity of communicating with you, we have sent this
note by our son Eupsychius, a man whom we hold in great honour and
affection, asking you to reply to our letter with all speed, and inform
us at once about your own actions and those of our representatives, and
about the completion of the whole matter: so that we may allay
the anxiety which we now feel in defence of the Faith, by happier
tidings. Dated 11th August in the consulship of the illustrious
Asturius and Protogenes (449).E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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