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

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Libanius to <strong>Basil</strong>.Letter CCCXLIX.Libanius to <strong>Basil</strong>.Will you not give over, <strong>Basil</strong>, packing this sacred haunt of the Muses with Cappadocians,<strong>and</strong> these redolent of the frost 3285 <strong>and</strong> snow <strong>and</strong> all Cappadocia’s good things? They havealmost made me a Cappadocian too, always chanting their “I salute you.”I must endure, since it is <strong>Basil</strong> who comm<strong>and</strong>s. Know, however, that I am making acareful study of the manners <strong>and</strong> customs of the country, <strong>and</strong> that I mean to metamorphosethe men into the nobility <strong>and</strong> the harmony of my Calliope, that they may seem to you to beturned from pigeons into doves.3285 γριτή, an unknown word. Perhaps akin to κρίοτη. cf. Duncange s.v.916

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