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

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To Meletius the Physician.Letter CXCIII. 2679To Meletius the Physician.I am not able to flee from the discomforts of winter so well as cranes are, although forforeseeing the future I am quite as clever as a crane. But as to liberty of life the birds are almostas far ahead of me as they are in the being able to fly. In the first place I have beendetained by certain worldly business; then I have been so wasted by constant <strong>and</strong> violentattacks of fever that there does seem something thinner even than I was,—I am thinner thanever. Besides all this, bouts of quartan ague have gone on for more than twenty turns. NowI do seem to be free from fever, but I am in such a feeble state that I am no stronger than acobweb. Hence the shortest journey is too far for me, <strong>and</strong> every breath of wind is moredangerous to me than big waves to those at sea. I have no alternative but to hide in my hut<strong>and</strong> wait for spring, if only I can last out so long, <strong>and</strong> am not carried off beforeh<strong>and</strong> 2680 bythe internal malady of which I am never rid. If the Lord saves me with His mighty h<strong>and</strong>, Ishall gladly betake myself to your remote region, <strong>and</strong> gladly embrace a friend so dear. Onlypray that my life may be ordered as may be best for my soul’s good.2342679 Placed in 375.2680 προδιαρπασθῶμεν with two mss. προδιαμάρτοιμεν has better authority, but is bad Greek, <strong>and</strong> makesworse sense.671

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