At an early age he seems to have been sent to school at Cæsarea, i.e. the Cappadocian Cæsarea.  The theory of Tillemont that Cæsarea of Palestine was the scene of Basil’s early school life seems hardly to deserve the careful refutation of Maran (Vit. Bas. i. 5).  cf. Ep. xlv. p. 148, and p. 145, n.  cf. also note on p. 141 on a possible intercourse between the boy Basil and the young princes Gallus and Julian in their seclusion at Macellum.  The park and palace of Macellum (Amm. Marc. “fundus”) was near Mt. Argæus (Soz. v. 2) and close to Cæsarea.  If Basil and Julian did ever study the Bible together, it seems more probably that they should do so at Macellum, while the prince was still being educated as a Christian, than afterwards at Athens, when the residence at Nicomedia has resulted in the apostasy.  cf. Maran, Vit. Bas. ii. 4. and there to have formed the acquaintance of an Eusebius, otherwise unknown, Ep. cclxxi. Hesychius, Ep. lxiv. and Gregory of Nazianzus, Greg. Naz. Or. xliii. and to have conceived a boyish admiration for Dianius the archbishop. Ep. li.