CHAPTER I Basil the best of all the friends of Chrysostom
CHAPTER I
Basil the best of all the friends of Chrysostom
1. I HAD many friends, both genuine and true, who understood and strictly observed the laws of friendship; but among the many there was one who far excelled them all in attachment to me, and strove to leave the rest as far behind, as they did such as were simply well disposed towards me.
2. He was one of those who always accompanied me, for we had embraced the same studies, and availed ourselves of the same instructors; we had the same inclination and zeal for the subjects which occupied us; while our aspirations were alike, and produced by the same influences. Nor was this only while we waited upon our preceptors, but also when, on leaving them, we had to advise what was the best course of life for us to choose. And even here it appeared we were of one accord.