Photios on the Reward of the Legates’ Goodwill

¹ Photios, the most holy patriarch, said: We are sinful and lowly; but you yourselves shall receive the worthy reward of your disposition toward us. If, then, the discourse and the matter set before us concerned some other person, I would have much to say; but since it concerns myself, taking up the burdensomeness of such words, I judge it better to keep silent, unless some great necessity should compel me to speak.