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Basil to Libanius

Letters of Basil · Saint Basil the Great

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Letter CCCLVI.

BasEp 350.1.1

Basil to Libanius.

BasEp 350.1.2

I am delighted at receiving what you write, but when you ask me to reply, I am in a difficulty. What could I say in answer to so Attic a tongue, except that I confess, and confess with joy, that I am a pupil of fishermen?

BasEp 350.1.3