Letter 349
Late Antiquity Basil of Caesarea Greek- Libanius to Basil Will you not cease, Basil, from filling this sacred precinct of the Muses with Cappadocians—and these reeking of pickled fish and snow and the fine things of those parts? You have all but made a Cappadocian of me too, forever chanting to me their "I do you reverence." Yet one must bear it, when Basil commands. Know, then, that I am studying carefully the manners of that country, and that I shall reclothe these men in the nobility and the harmony of my own Calliope, so that they may appear to you as doves instead of wild pigeons.