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Letter CLVIII.
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To Antiochus.
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My sins have prevented me from carrying out the wish to meet you, which I have long entertained. Let me apologise by letter for my absence, and beseech you not to omit to remember me in your prayers, that, if I live, I may be permitted to enjoy your society. If not, by the aid of your prayers may I quit this world with good hope. I commend to you our brother the camel-master.
Translated by Blomfield Jackson. Edition opa.patristics.basil-the-great.letters-selected.en.