When Gregory, on the elevation of Basil to the Episcopate, was at last induced to visit his old friend, he declined the dignities which Basil pressed upon him (τήνδε τῆς καθέδρας τιμήν, i.e. the position of chief presbyter or coadjutor bishop, Orat. xliii. 39), and made no long stay.  Some Nazianzene scandal-mongers had charged Basil with heterodoxy.  Gregory asked him for explanations, and Basil, somewhat wounded, rejoins that no explanations are needed.  The translation in the text with the exception of the passages in brackets, is that of Newman.  cf. Proleg. and reff. to Greg. Naz.