Letter 1001: Lest my interruption of correspondence be counted against me as a fault, I prefer to be prompt in my duty rather...
Ne mihi vitio vertatur intermissio litterarum , malo esse promptuB ofiScii qfuam
& longa expectatione vicissitudinis desidere; tum quod parentibus non ad lancem neque
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(Eusebius having replied to the former letter Gregory wrote again, having an opportunity of communicating with his friend through one Eupraxius, a disciple of Eusebius, who passed through Cappadocia on his way to visit his master. This letter is sometimes attributed to Basil.) Our reverend brother Eupraxius has always been dear to me and a true ...
Don't take me for the Euripus.
How am I to dispute with you in writing? How can I lay hold of you satisfactorily, with all your simplicity? Tell me; who ever falls a third time into the same nets?
You sent that letter as a refutation — to show that I had given you too grand a title by calling you first among Greeks.
The reasons Iamblichus [a young kinsman of the famous philosopher, not the philosopher himself] set out, he will...