Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 356
Letter CCCLVI.
Basil to Libanius.
I am delighted at receiving what you write, but when you ask me to reply, I am in a difficulty. What could I say in answer to so Attic a tongue, except that I confess, and confess with joy, that I am a pupil of fishermen?