2 On Basil's difficulties while at Nicopolis, with a request for the sympathy of Eusebius.
2 On the difficulty of reconciliation with Eustathius.
3 Maran supposes this to be the place referred to in Letter ccliv. 2.
2 A refutation of a charge that he was the author of an Apollinarian document.
3 The Ben. note adduces this letter and Letter ccxxiv. as shewing two kinds of communion, (1) Personal in the Eucharist and prayer, and (2) by letter.
2 Bishop of Castabala, whither he was translated from Eleutheropolis. cf. Letters ccliv. and ccxlv.
6 There is no other mention in Basil's letters of Eustathius being guilty of re-ordination. The Ben. note, however, states that Basil is not accurate in saying that there was no heretical precedent for such proceedings. The Arians are charged with it in the Book of Prayers of Faustus and Marcellinus, Bib. Patr v. 655. cf. also the letter of Constantius to the Ethiopians against Frumentius. Athan., Apol. ad Const. § 31.
3 cf. Letter cxxv. and Greg. Naz., Orat. i. and xxix.
2 cf. Letter xcii. He was present at the Council of Constantinople.
1 Peter II. succeeded Athanasius in May, 373. Athanasius died May 2.
2 cf. Letter cix. Theodoret, Hist. Ecc. iv. 24. He was a pupil of Silvanus, bishop of Tarsus. Letter ccxliv. Theodoret, Ep. xvi., refers to his obligations to him as a teacher. In 378 he became bishop of Tarsus. Only some fragments of his works remain, the bulk having been destroyed, it is said, by the Arians.
2 On his own sickness and the troubles of the Church. On his bad health. cf. Letters ix., xxvii., cxcviii., ccii., cciii., and ccxvi. The translation of the first section is Newman's.