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Letter CCCLVI.

Basil to Libanius.

I am delighted at receiving what you write, but when you ask me to reply, I am in a difficulty.  What could I say in answer to so Attic a tongue, except that I confess, and confess with joy, that I am a pupil of fishermen?


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