NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works - Holy Bible Institute

To Arcadius, Imperial Treasurer.To Arcadius, Imperial Treasurer. 1898Letter XV. 1897The townsmen of our metropolis have conferred on me a greater favour than they havereceived, in giving me an opportunity of writing to your excellency. The kindness, to winwhich they have received this letter from me, was assured them even before I wrote, on accountof your wonted and inborn courtesy to all. But I have considered it a very great advantageto have the opportunity of addressing your excellency, praying to the holy God thatI may continue to rejoice, and share in the pleasure of the recipients of your bounty, whileyou please Him more and more, and while the splendour of your high place continues toincrease. I pray that in due time I may with joy once more welcome those who are deliveringthis my letter into your hands, 1899 and send them forth praising, as do many, your consideratetreatment of them, and I trust that they will have found my recommendation of themnot without use in approaching your exalted excellency.1897 Written from the Pontic retreat.1898 Comes rei privatæ, “who managed the enormous revenues of the fiscus and kept account of the privilegesgranted by the Emperor (liber beneficiorum, Hyginus, De Const. Limit. p. 203, ed. Lachm. and Du Cange s.v.).”D.C.B. i. 634.1899 There is confusion here in the text, and the Benedictines think it unmanageable as it stands. But thematter is of no importance.395