{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/208/2080085.htm","path":"chr/ecf/208/2080085.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/208/2080085.htm","text":"Letter XII. 1888\nTo Olympius. 1889\nBefore 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.\nOf the same date as the preceding.\n124:1889\nOlympius was an influential friend of Basil\u2019s, and sympathized with him in his later troubles, and under the attacks of Eustathius. cf. Letters ccxi., lxiii., lxiv.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VIII: The Letters.: To Olympius.","type":"page"}