Some Nazianzene scandal-mongers had charged basil with heterodoxy. Gregory asked him for explanations, and Basil, somewhat wounded, rejoins that no explanations are needed. The translation in the text with the exception of the passages in brackets, is that of Newman. Proleg . and reff. Placed at about the same period as the preceding.
Letters lxxii. and lxxiii.
1 Of the same date as the preceding. About the same date as the preceding. A dignitary of Cappadocia otherwise unknown, whom Basil asks to intercede with the Emperor Valens to prevent that division of Cappadocia which afterward led to so much trouble. So the Spartans named the pit into which condemned criminals were thrown. Thucyd., i. 134.