Letters CCCLXI. and
CCCLXIII., to Apollinarius, and Letters CCCLXII. and CCCLXIV., from
Apollinarius to Basil, are condemned as indubitably spurious, not only
on internal evidence, but also on the ground of Basil’s
asseveration that he had never written but once to Apollinarius, and
that “as layman to layman.”3293
Letter CCCLXV., “to the great
emperor Theodosius,” on an inundation in Cappadocia, is also
condemned by the Ben. Ed. as spurious, and contains nothing of
ecclesiastical or theological interest. Tillemont however (vol.
v., p. 739) thought its style not unworthy of a young man and a
rhetorician, and conjectures the Theodosius to whom it is addressed to
be not the great emperor, but some magistrate of
Cappadocia.
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