---
title: "Letters and Select Works"
author: "Basil of Caesarea"
translator: "Blomfield Jackson"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Church Fathers"
section: 96 of 102
url: https://scriptura.si/works/basil-of-caesarea-letters-and-select-works/96/
cite: "Basil of Caesarea, tr. Blomfield Jackson, Letters and Select Works, section 96. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/basil-of-caesarea-letters-and-select-works/96/"
---

# Letters and Select Works

*Basil of Caesarea, tr. Blomfield Jackson*

Basil on the Holy Spirit, the six days of creation, and his letters.

## 96. To Aburgius

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/basil-of-caesarea-letters-and-select-works/96/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/basil-of-caesarea-letters-and-select-works/96/#p-N

### Letter CCCIV

[¶1] [A few unimportant words of introduction.]

### Without address

### Letter CCCV

[¶4] [An unimportant letter of recommendation.]

### To the Governor of Sebasteia

### Letter CCCVI

[¶7] I am aware that your excellency is favourably receiving my letters, and I understand why. You love all that is good; you are ready in doing kindnesses. So whenever I give you the opportunity of shewing your magnanimity, you are eager for my letters, because you know that they furnish an occasion for good deeds. Now, once more, behold an occasion for your shewing all the signs of rectitude, and at the same time for the public exhibition of your virtues! Certain persons have come from Alexandria for the discharge of a necessary duty which is due from all men to the dead. They ask your excellency to give orders that it may be permitted them to have conveyed away, under official sanction, the corpse of a relative who departed this life at Sebasteia, while the troops were quartered there. They further beg that, as far as possible, aid may be given them for travelling at the public expense, so that, of your bounty, they may find some help and solace in their long journey. The tidings of this will travel as far as to great Alexandria, and will convey thither the report of your excellency’s astonishing kindness. This you well understand without my mentioning it. I shall add gratitude for this one more favour to that which I feel for all which you have done me.

### Without address

### Letter CCCVII

[¶10] [A request to mediate between two litigants.]

### Without address

### Letter CCCVIII

[¶13] [Commendatory, with the mention of a place called Capralis.]

### Without address

### Letter CCCIX

[¶16] [Commendatory on behalf of a man reduced from wealth to poverty, with three children, and anxious about his rating.]

### Without address

### Letter CCCX

[¶19] [Commendatory on behalf of some kinsfolk, and of the people of Ariarathia, a place in the Sargaransene, about 60 m. E. of Cæsarea.]

### Without Address

### Letter CCCXI

[¶22] [Commendatory: short and of no importance.]