Alexander of Cappadocia - From the Epistles of Alexander

From an Epistle to the Antinoites.

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 to ^[1234] his hundred and tenth year, unites with me in exhorting you to be of one mind. ^[1235]

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[1232] In Euseb., Hist. Eccles., book vi. ch. xi.

[1233] sunexetazomenos moi dia ton euchon. Jerome renders it: Salutat vos Narcissus, qui ante me hic tenuit episcopalem locum et nunc mecum eundem orationibus regit.

[1234] enukos.

[1235] The text gives homoios emoi phronesai. Several of the codices and also Nicephorus give the better reading, homoios emoi homophronesai, which is confirmed by the interpretations of Rufinus and Jerome.

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