To Olympius.

Letter XII. ¹⁸⁸⁸

To Olympius. ¹⁸⁸⁹

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

124:1888

Of the same date as the preceding.

124:1889

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.