Letter 341
Late Antiquity Basil of Caesarea Greek- Libanius to Basil You have not yet relaxed your displeasure with me, so that I tremble even as I write. But if you have let it go, why do you not write, my excellent friend? And if you still hold it fast—a thing foreign to every cultivated soul, and to yours as well—how is it that, while you proclaim to others that one ought not to keep displeasure until the setting of the sun, you yourself have kept it through many suns? Or have you perhaps chosen to punish me by depriving me of your honey-sweet voice? Do not so, noble friend, but become gentle, and grant me to enjoy that all-golden tongue of yours.