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The Letters.

To Olympius.

Saint Basil the Great · Historical English edition; series volume first published 1895 · 35 words
Historical English translation. Original wording is not automatically translated.
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Letter XIII.

To Olympius.

As all the fruits of the season come to us in their proper time, flowers in spring, corn in summer, and apples in autumn, so the fruit for winter is talk.

Edition and rights

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works. Historical English edition; series volume first published 1895.

Blomfield Jackson, translator

Ancient work and historical English translation: public domain in the United States (published before 1931). Copyright rules vary by country. This is a historical source transcription, not an official Church edition. Modern website material is not reproduced.

Historical footnotes and publisher introductions are omitted. Author-written openings are retained. Paragraph whitespace is normalized. Transcriptions can contain errors; this is not a critical edition. Attribution follows the historical edition, not universal scholarly agreement.

Digitization provenance (not an external reading link): https://www.ccel.org/ccel/s/schaff/npnf208.xml

Source section: ix.xiv · Text SHA-256: 33fc5dbb05a459fd1acd9b77751e8cfbf756e28dec01c8f0d259a0bd64336421