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| To Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium.
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Letter
CLXXVI.2581
To Amphilochius, Bishop of
Iconium.2582
| 2582 An
invitation to feast of St. Eupsychius, with a request to arrive
three days before the actual day of the festival, which was observed
on the 7th of September. (cf. Letter c. and note, and
the invitation to the Pontic bishops in cclii.) |
God grant that when this
letter is put into your hands, it may find you in good health, quite at
leisure, and as you would wish to be. For then it will not be in
vain that I send you this invitation to be present at our city, to add
greater dignity to the annual festival which it is the custom of our
Church to hold in honour of the martyrs.2583
| 2583 i.e.
Damas and Eupsychius. | For be sure my most honoured and dear
friend, that our people here, though they have had experience of many,
desire no one’s presence so eagerly as they do yours; so
affectionate an impression has your short intercourse with them left
behind. So, then, that the Lord may be glorified, the people
delighted, the martyrs honoured, and that I in my old age may receive
the attention due to me from my true son, do not refuse to travel to me
with all speed. I will beg you too to anticipate the day of
assembly, that so we may converse at leisure and may comfort one
another by the interchange of spiritual gifts. The day is the
fifth of September.2584
| 2584 So the
date stands in eight mss. However it
arose, 5th is a mistake for 7th, the day of St. Eupsychius in the
Greek Kalendar. | Come then
three days beforehand in order that you may also honour with your
presence the Church2585
| 2585 Μνήμη.
The Ben. Ed. understand by this word the church erected by Basil in
his hospital (cf. Letter xciv.) at Cæsarea. In
illustration of the use of μνήμη in this sense Du Cange
cites Act. Conc. Chalced. i. 144, and explains it as being
equivalent to “memoria,” i.e.
“ædes sacra in qua extat sancti alicujus
sepulcrum.” cf. Nomocan.
Photii v. § 1. For the similar use of
“memoria,” in Latin, cf.
Aug., De Civ. Dei. xxii. 10: “Nos autem
martyribus nostris non templa sicut diis
sedmemoriassicut hominibus mortuis
fabricamus.” | of the
Hospital. May you by the grace of the Lord be kept in good health
and spirits in the Lord, praying for me and for the Church of
God.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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