Caesareans
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the Caesareans · these Caesareans
in the texts
Letters
The people of Caesarea, addressed in Basil's apology for his withdrawal.
To the Caesareans, an apology for his withdrawal, and concerning the faith
I have often wondered what you have felt toward us, and whence comes so great an attachment to our littleness—small and slight and having perhaps nothing lovable about it—that you urge us with words, reminding us of friendship and fatherland, as though trying with a father's tenderness to turn back to yourselves certain exiles. As for my having become an exile, I confess it and do not deny it; but …
Orations
People of Caesarea, cited as a neighboring Greek city engaged in civic ambition.
For I, seeing other cities ambitious about such things, supposed — I mean not only those in Asia and Syria and Cilicia, but these neighbouring ones close at hand, the city of the Nicomedians, that of the Nicaeans, these Caesareans, men noble and thoroughly Greek, but inhabiting a city far smaller than ours, and the men engaged in public affairs in each, even if they are at variance about other mat …