Letter 1029: A careful appeal for Anysius' help after long mutual silence.

I myself write to you only after a long interval, but you never write to me at all; and that is what has made my interval long too. Surely a man who finds writing burdensome also finds receiving letters burdensome. Now, however, even if I greatly wished it, I cannot keep silent. I write and ask you to find some solution for the present troubles, one that will add to the reputation of excellent Rufinus and will not shake our position, which has its strength from justice. For now it is enough for me to say only this: my hopes rest not in the number of letters I have, but in the character of noble Rufinus, who considers it a great gain always to do something that will move every mouth to praise. I think this will happen now as well, and that people will be given occasions for the words they desire. Do not be surprised that no letter about our affairs has gone to Rufinus himself. Since not even a few syllables came back to me in place of the letter I sent at your urging, that was a kind of advice not to do any such thing.