Basil's illness
event · 1 work · 4 mentions · 10 anchored passages
continuous and violent fevers · long illness · long illnesses · my illness · my present weakness · my sickness · quartan fever · this disease
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Letters
Recurring illness that continues to prevent Basil from visiting Eustathius.
In the end, even now, while I am living in my own country, it has not been granted me to be with you, since I am kept off by long illnesses;
For this was the fiftieth day I was passing in illness, on which our beloved and most zealous brother Elpidius, the co-deacon, came to us;
And now, had not my sins stood in my way — first our most reverend and beloved brother Eustathius the co-deacon, falling into a grievous sickness, kept me waiting two whole months, watching day by day for his recovery;