Oration 43: Funeral Oration for Basil, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. By St. Gregory the Theologian
It remained only that the Great Basil—who so often had furnished me with many subjects for discourse (for he rejoiced in my words more than any man rejoices in his own)—should now, at last, offer even himself as a subject for rhetorical struggle, and that a most exalted one, even for those well-versed in the…