Somewhere about this period he wrote the work entitled Apologeticus, in twenty-eight chapters, to which Basil replies.  The title was at once a parody on the Apologies of defenders of the Faith, and, at the same time, a suggestion that his utterances were not spontaneous, but forced from him by attack.  The work is printed in Fabricius, Bibl. Græc. viii. 262, and in the appendix to Migne’s Basil. Pat. Gr. xxx. 837. cf. also Basnage in Canisii Lectiones antt. i. 172; Fessler, Inst. Pat. 1. 507.  Dorner, Christologie, 1. 853, and Böhringer, Kirchengeschichte, vii. 62.  It is a brief treatise, and occupies only about fifteen columns of Migne’s edition.  It professes to be a defence of the “simpler creed which is common to all Christians.” ἁπλουστέρα καὶ κοινὴ πάντων πίστις.  § 5.