Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 12

by Philip Schaff et al.

Letter XII.^[1]

To Olympius.^[2]

Before you did write me a few words:  now not even a few.  Your brevity will soon become silence.  Return to your old ways, and do not let me have to scold you for your laconic behaviour.  But I shall be glad even of a little letter in token of your great love.  Only write to me.

Footnotes

1. Of the same date as the preceding.
2. Olympius was an influential friend of Basil’s, and sympathized with him in his later troubles, and under the attacks of Eustathius.  cf. Letters ccxi., lxiii., lxiv.