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

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To the Governor of Sebasteia.Letter CCCVI.To the Governor of Sebasteia. 3262I am aware that your excellency is favourably receiving my letters, <strong>and</strong> I underst<strong>and</strong>why. You love all that is good; you are ready in doing kindnesses. So whenever I give youthe opportunity of shewing your magnanimity, you are eager for my letters, because youknow that they furnish an occasion for good deeds. Now, once more, behold an occasionfor your shewing all the signs of rectitude, <strong>and</strong> at the same time for the public exhibition ofyour virtues! Certain persons have come from Alex<strong>and</strong>ria for the discharge of a necessaryduty which is due from all men to the dead. They ask your excellency to give orders that itmay be permitted them to have conveyed away, under official sanction, the corpse of a relativewho departed this life at Sebasteia, while the troops were quartered there. They furtherbeg that, as far as possible, aid may be given them for travelling at the public expense, sothat, of your bounty, they may find some help <strong>and</strong> solace in their long journey. The tidingsof this will travel as far as to great Alex<strong>and</strong>ria, <strong>and</strong> will convey thither the report of yourexcellency’s astonishing kindness. This you well underst<strong>and</strong> without my mentioning it. Ishall add gratitude for this one more favour to that which I feel for all which you have doneme.3193262 ῾Ηγεμόνι Σεβαστείας. The Ben. Ed. think that here <strong>and</strong> in Letter lxiii. ἡγευών means not governor butHead of the Senate. cf. Cod. Theod. xii., i. 127, 171, 189. So in Letter lxxxvi. The “præpositus pagorum” is styledἡγεμών.878

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