2 Also recommending the interests of Eusebius.
3 The Ben. note considers the circumstances referred to are the cruelties of Valens to those who were accused of enquiring by divination as to who should succeed him on the throne. cf. Ammianus Marcellinus xxix. 1, 2.
2 Possibly commendatory of the same Eusebius.
2 In Armenia Minor, now Malatia. Basil asks him for and offers sympathy in the exile of Eusebius. Otreius was at Tyana in 367, and at Constantinople in 381 (Labbe ii. 99 and 955).
3 Where Eusebius was in exile.
2 Specially the exile of Eusebius.
2 xa/rin e!xein toi=j oikonomrqei=sin, with the Cod. Med., instead of e'pi\ toi=j oi\konomhqei=sin. The Ben. note points out that this expression of gratitude to the troubles themselves is of a piece with the expression of gratitude to enemies in the De. Sp. S. vi. § 13. (p. 8), and concludes: "Sic etiam Machabaeorum mater apud Gregorium Nazianzenum orat. xxii. ait se tyranno pene gratias agere.
3 cf. Prov. xvii. 3 and xxvii. 21.
2 Nothing more is known of this Eustathius. Himmeria is in Osrhoene.
2 Nothing more is known of this Theodotus.
3 The Greek proverb was di\j kra/mbh qa/natoj, vide Politian. Miscel. 33. cf. "Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros." Juv. vii. 154.
4 kourotpo/foj. Ithaca is a'gaqh\ kourotro/foj, because it bore and bred hardy men. Od. ix. 27.
2 In this letter Basil replies to several questions of Amphilochius concerning the Canons, and also concerning the interpretation of some passages of Holy Scripture. Maran dates it at the end of 374.