The clergy of Pisidia and Pontus, where Eustathius
had been specially successful in alienating the district of Dazimon,
were personally visited and won back to communion. Epp.
cciii. and ccxvi. But Atarbius and the Neocæsareans
were deaf to all appeal, and remained persistently
irreconcilable. Epp.
lxv., xxvi., ccx. On his visiting
the old home at Annesi, where his youngest brother Petrus was now
residing, in 375, the Neocæsareans were thrown into a state of
almost ludicrous panic. They fled as from a pursuing
enemy. Ep.
ccxvi. They
accused Basil of seeking to win their regard and support from
motives of the pettiest ambition, and twitted him with travelling
into their neighbourhood uninvited.
Ib.