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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Footnotes:

[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.