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| Basil to Libanius.
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Letter CCCXLII.
Basil to Libanius.
All who are attached to
the rose, as might be expected in the case of lovers of the beautiful,
are not displeased even at the thorns from out of which the flower
blows. I have even heard it said about roses by some one, perhaps
in jest, or, it may be, even in earnest, that nature has furnished the
bloom with those delicate thorns, like stings of love to lovers, to
excite those who pluck them to intenser longing by these ingeniously
adapted pricks.3277
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ms. vary between ἐνπλήκτοις,
ἐνπλέκτοις,
ἀπλήκτοις,
ἀπράκτοις. | But
what do I mean by this introduction of the rose into my letter?
You do not need telling, when you remember your own letter. It
had indeed the bloom of the rose, and, by its fair speech, opened out
all spring to me; but it was bethorned with certain fault findings and
charges against me. But even the thorn of your words is
delightful to me, for it enkindles in me a greater longing for your
friendship.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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