Will you not give over,
Basil, packing this sacred haunt of the Muses with Cappadocians, and
these redolent of the frost γριτή, an unknown
word. Perhaps akin to κρίοτη.
cf. Duncange s.v. and snow and all
Cappadocia’s good things? They have almost made me a
Cappadocian too, always chanting their “I salute
you.”