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

The Breach with Gregory of Nazianzus.leading northwards from Tyana to Doara and diverging westward to Nazianzus. 193 Gregoryspeaks of it with contempt, and almost with disgust, 194 and never seems to have forgivenhis old friend for forcing him to accept the responsibility of the episcopate, and in such axxvi193 “Nyssa was more clearly than either Sasima or Doara a part of Cappadocia Secunda; it always retainedits ecclesiastical dependence on Cæsarea, but politically it must have been subject to Tyana from 372 to 536,and afterwards to Mokissos. All three were apparently places to which Basil consecrated bishops during hiscontest with Anthimus and the civil power. His bishop of Nyssa, his own brother Gregory, was ejected by thedominant Arians, but the eminence and vigour of Gregory secured his reinstatement and triumphant return.Basil’s appointment was thus successful, and the connexion always continued. His appointment at Sasima wasunsuccessful. Gregory of Nazianzus would not maintain the contest, and Sasima passed under the metropolitanof Tyana. At Doara, in like fashion, Basil’s nominee was expelled, and apparently never reinstated. Ep. ccxxxix.Greg. Naz. Or. xiii.” Ramsay, Hist. Geog. of A.M. 305.194 As in Carm. De Vita Sua: Σταθμός τις ἐστὶν ἐν μέσῃ λεωφόρῳ Τῆς Καππαδοκῶν ὃς σχίζετ᾽ εἰς τρισσὴνὁδόν. ῎Ανυδρος, ἄχλους, οὐδ᾽ ὅλως ἐλεύθερος, Δεινῶς ἐπευκτὸν καὶ στενὸν κωμύδριον, Κόνις τὰ πάντα, καὶψόφοι, σὺν ἅρμασι, Θρῆνοι, στεναγμοὶ, πράκτορες, στρέβλαι, πέδαι· Λαὸς δ᾽ ὅσοι ξένοι τε καὶ πλανώμενοι,Αὕτη Σασίμων τῶν ἐμῶν ἐκκλησία. [N.B.—The last line marks the quantity.] “A post town on the king’s highroad, Where three ways meet, is my abode; No brooklet, not a blade of grass, Enlivens the dull hole, alas! Dust,din, all day; the creak of wheels; Groans, yells, the exciseman at one’s heels With screw and chain; the populationA shifting horde from every nation. A viler spot you long may search, Than this Sasima, now my church!”37