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INTRODUCTION
is extant among the saint's correspondence as Letter
41. Even in Byzantine times both letters were
regarded as unskilful forgeries, alien to the character
of the writers to whom they were ascribed.
The main argument against the authenticity of
Letter 81 is the peculiar language, which is like
nothing that we know to be Julianic. A minor point
is that he regularly calls the Danube by the name
Ister, whereas the writer of the letter does not.
Further, the silence of Gregory Nazianzen as to
the demand of money from Basil is strange in one
who had been a fellow-student of the two men at
Athens, and in his invectives against Julian would
hardly have omitted this outrage if Basil had been
involved. Moreover, the last words of Letter 81 are
said by Sozomen 5. 18 to have been addressed by
Julian st to the bishops," and he says that the bishops
made the retort which appears at the end of Basil's
alleged reply : (Wyj/oos aXX' ovk eyvoiS' el yap eyva)