Event Factoid: Cosmas did
not repent before Severus but merely wanted to engage in conversation,
prompting Severus to leave in disgust.
Sources:
Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac
Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Translation, Part I: Letters I.1-II.3, vol. 2.1 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1903), part: 1.11, p: 50.