Silvanus, Metropolitan of Tarsus, one of the best of the Semi-Arians (Ath., De synod. 41), died, according to Tillemont, in 373, according to Maran four years earlier, and was succeeded by an Arian; but events did not turn out so disastrously as Basil had anticipated.  The majority of the presbyters were true to the Catholic cause, and Basil maintained friendship and intercourse with them.  cf. Letters lxvii., cxiii., cxiv.