Letter 273: I am sure that your excellency loves me well enough to regard all that concerns me as concerning you. Therefore I commend to your great kindness and high consideration my very reverend brother Hera, whom I do not merely call brother by any conventional phrase, but because of his boundless affection. I beseech you to regard him as though he were ...

I am confident that Your Excellency loves me well enough to regard everything that concerns me as concerning you. I therefore commend to your great kindness my very reverend brother Hera -- a man I call "brother" not as a mere formality but because of his boundless affection. I beg you to treat him as though he were closely connected with you personally, and to extend to him, as far as you can, your protection in the matters where he needs your generous and thoughtful assistance. I will count this as one more kindness added to the many I have already received from your hands.

ST. BASIL OF CAESAREA Without address. Concerning Hera. I am sure that your excellency loves me well enough to regard all that concerns me as concerning you. Therefore I commend to your great kindness and high consideration my very reverend brother Hera, whom I do not merely call brother by any conventional phrase, but because of his boundless affection. I beseech you to regard him as though he were nearly connected with yourself, and, so far as you can, to give him your protection in the matters in which he requires your generous and thoughtful aid. I shall then have this one more kindness to reckon in addition to the many which I have already received at your hands.

[Πρός: Ἀνεπίγραφος, περὶ Ἥρα] Ἀκριβῶς πεπεισμένος οὕτως ἡμᾶς ἀγαπᾷν τὴν σὴν τιμιότητα, ὥστε τὰ ἡμῖν διαφέροντα οἰκεῖα λογίζεσθαι, τὸ αἰδεσιμώτατον ἀδελφὸν ἡμῶν Ἥραν, ὃν οὐ κατὰ συνήθειάν τινα ἀδελφὸν ἡμῶν προσαγορεύομεν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ ἀκριβεστάτην καὶ οὐδεμίαν ἔχουσαν ὑπερβολὴν τῆς φιλίας διάθεσιν, συνιστῶ σου τῇ ὑπερφυεῖ καλοκαγαθίᾳ, καὶ παρακαλῶ οἰκείως τε αὐτὸν θεάσασθαι, καὶ τὴν κατὰ δύναμίν σοι παρασχέσθαι αὐτῷ προστασίαν ἐν οἷς ἂν δέηται τῆς μεγαλονοίας σου· ὥστε με τοῖς πολλοῖς οἷς ἤδη τετύχηκα παρὰ σοὶ ἀγαθοῖς καὶ ταύτην ἔχειν τὴν εὐεργεσίαν συναριθμεῖν.