Event Factoid: Rufinus, who
had brought a letter from the Master of Offices to
Severus
summoning him to Heraclea, was unable to bring back the response because
of a disease of the eyes.
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: 1.21, p: 73.