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Libanius to Basil.<br />

Letter CCCXLI.<br />

Libanius to Basil.<br />

You have not yet ceased to be offended with me, <strong>and</strong> so I tremble as I write. If you have<br />

cared, why, my dear sir, do you not write? If you are still offended, a thing alien from any<br />

reasonable soul <strong>and</strong> from your own, why, while you are preaching to others, that they must<br />

not keep their anger till sundown, 3276 have you kept yours during many suns? Peradventure<br />

you have meant to punish me by depriving me of the sound of your sweet voice? Nay; excellent<br />

sir, be gentle, <strong>and</strong> let me enjoy your golden tongue.<br />

3276 cf. Eph. iv. 27, <strong>and</strong> the passage quoted by Alford from Plut., De Am. Frat. 488 B., to the effect that the<br />

Pythagoreans, whenever anger had caused unkindly words, shook h<strong>and</strong>s before sundown, <strong>and</strong> were reconciled.<br />

908<br />

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