Letter 10014: The prefectural records require an imperial confirmation on a question of precedent; I set out the question in the...

This man Firmus is a concern to my mother, and a concern to me on her account.

You have finally broken your long silence -- though, by Hercules, only after being prodded by my repeated letters.

Are you living at Athens, Basil? Have you forgotten yourself? The sons of the Cæsareans could not endure to hear these things.

The season in the city has been unusually demanding, with three official events in the same week and the usual...

(The division of the civil Province of Cappadocia into two Provinces in the year 372 was followed by ecclesiastical troubles. Anthimus, the Bishop of Tyana, the civil metropolis of the new division of Cappadocia Secunda, maintained that the Ecclesiastical divisions must necessarily follow the civil, and by consequence claimed for himself that th...