5.  Ask yourself.  How often did you visit me in my monastery on the Iris, when my very God-beloved brother Gregory was with me, following the same course of life as myself?  Did you ever hear anything of the kind?  Was there any appearance of such a thing, small or great?  How many days did we spend in the opposite village, at my mother’s, living as friend with friend, and discoursing together night and day?  Did you ever find me holding any opinion of the kind?  And when we went together to visit the blessed Silvanus, i.e.Silvanus of Tarsus.  cf. Letters xxxiv. p. 136, and lxvii. p. 164. did we not talk of these things on the way?  And at Eusinoe, I have not been able to identify Eusinoe.  There was an Eusene on the north coast of Pontus. when you were about to set out with other bishops for Lampsacus, i.e. in 364, the year after St. Basil’s ordination as presbyter, and the publication of his work against Eunomius.  The Council of Lampsacus, at which Basil was not present, repudiated the Creeds of Ariminum and Constantinople (359 and 360), and reasserted the 2d Dedication Creed of Antioch of 341.  Maran dates it 364 (Vit. Bas. x.). was not our discourse about the faith?  Were not your shorthand writers at my side the whole time while I was dictating my objections to the heresy?  Were not your most faithful disciples there too?  When I was visiting the brotherhood, and passing the night with them in their prayers, continually speaking and hearing of the things pertaining to God without dispute, was not the evidence which I gave of my sentiments exact and definite?  How came you then to reckon this rotten and slender suspicion as of more importance than the experience of such a length of time?