cf. Ep. ccxvi., where he speaks of going to the house of his brother Peter near Neocæsarea.  One of the five brothers apparently died young, as the property of the elder Basil was at his death, before 340, divided into nine portions, i.e. among the five daughters and four surviving sons, the youngest, Peter, being then an infant.  (Greg. Nyss. Vita Mac. 186.)  Naucratius, the second son, was killed by an accident while hunting, c. 357.  Gregory of Nyssa must, therefore, be referred to in the text, if by “brothers” is meant brothers in blood.  Was it to Peter’s “cottage” or some neighbouring dwelling that Gregory fled when he escaped from the police of the Vicar Demosthenes, in order not to obey the summons of Valens to his synod at Ancrya?  Is the cottage of Peter “some quiet spot” of Ep. ccxxv.?  The plural ἀδελφῶν might be used conventionally, or understood to include Peter and a sister or sisters.