Letter 10012: The vintage this year was excellent, and the estate manager has expressed a confidence in the coming season's yield...

Even hoar hairs have something to learn; and old age, it would seem, cannot in all respects be trusted for wisdom. I at any rate, knowing better than anyone, as I did, the thoughts and the heresy of the Apollinarians, and seeing that their folly was intolerable; yet thinking that I could tame them by patience and soften them by degrees, I let my...

Having arrived at Formiae well into the day, and thinking you'd be anxious about us, we're writing ahead of any...

Manos is quick to borrow but slow to repay.

I'm tired and annoyed with writing — how long are we going to keep imitating the pleasure of real conversation with...

(An important letter on the Apollinarian controversy has already been given above.) 7. To Theodore, Bishop of Tyana (Theodore, a native of Arianzus, and an intimate friend of Gregory, accompanied him to Constantinople a.d. 379, and shared his persecution by the Arians, who broke into their church during the celebration of the divine liturgy, and...