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II. From an Epistle to the Antinoites.^[1]

Narcissus salutes you, who held the episcopate in this district before me, who is now also my colleague and competitor in prayer for you,^[2] and who, having now attained to^[3] his hundred and tenth year, unites with me in exhorting you to be of one mind.^[4]

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↑ In Euseb., Hist. Eccles., book vi. ch. xi.
↑ συνεξεταζόμενός μοι διὰ τῶν εὐχῶν. Jerome renders it: Salutat vos Narcissus, qui ante me hic tenuit episcopalem locum et nunc mecum eundem orationibus regit.
↑ ηνυκώς.
↑ 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.

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

[2] 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] ηνυκώς.

[4] 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.

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