Footnotes 1 Of the same date as the preceding. 2 Olympius was an influential friend f Basil's, and sympathized with him in his later troubles, and under the attacks of Eustathius.
Letters ccxi., lxiii.
Placed with the preceding. So the malum Cydonium was quince, the malum Persicum , peach, etc. Placed after Basil's choice of his Pontic retreat. On the topography, cf. Letters iii., x., ccxxiii., and remarks in the Prolegomena .