Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 33

To Aburgius.

knows so well as you do how to respect an old friendship, to pay reverence to virtue, and to sympathise with the sick?&#160; Now my God-beloved brother Gregory the bishop has become involved in matters which would be under any circumstances disagreeable, and are quite foreign to his bent of mind.&#160; I have therefore thought it best to throw myself on your protection, and to endeavour to obtain from you some solution of our difficulties.&#160; It is really an intolerable state of things that one who is neither by nature nor inclination adapted for anything of the kind should be compelled to be thus responsible; that demands for money should be made on a poor man; and that one who has long determined to pass his life in retirement should be dragged into publicity.&#160; It would depend upon your wise counsel whether you think it of any use to address the Comes Thesaurorum or any other persons.