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From an Epistle to the Antinoites.

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II. From an Epistle to the Antinoites.1232

Narcissus salutes you, who held the episcopate in this district before me, who is now also my colleague and competitor in prayer for you,1233 and who, having now attained to1234 his hundred and tenth year, unites with me in exhorting you to be of one mind.1235

Footnotes

  1. 1232

    In Euseb., Hist. Eccles., book vi. ch. xi.

  2. 1233

    συνεξεταζόμενός μοι διὰ τῶν εὐχῶν. Jerome renders it: Salutat vos Narcissus, qui ante me hic tenuit episcopalem locum et nunc mecum eundem orationibus regit.

  3. 1234

    ηνυκώς.

  4. 1235

    The text gives ὁμοίως ἐμοὶ φρονῆσαι. Several of the codices and also Nicephorus give the better reading, ὁμοίως ἐμοὶ ὁμοφρονῆσαι, which is confirmed by the interpretations of Rufinus and Jerome.