To this period may be referred Basil’s
receipt of the letter from Athanasius, mentioned in Letter CCIV.,
§ 6. Maran,
Vit. Bas. viii. 8. On the
accession of Jovian, in June, 363, Athanasius wrote to him asserting
the Nicene Faith, but he was greeted also by a Semiarian manifesto from
Antioch, Soc. iii.
25. of which the
first signatory was Meletius.