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2 On this subject see before Letters cxcix. and ccxvii. pp. 238 and 256. See Preb. Meyrick in D. C. A. ii. 1102: "It means not exactly the same as our word ravishment, but the violent removal of a woman to a place where her actions are no longer free, for the sake of inducing her or compelling her to marry. . . . By some raptus is distinguished into the two classes of raptus seductionis and raptus violentiae." cf. Cod. Theod. ix. tit. xxiv. legg. 1, 2, and Cod. Justin. ix.-xiii. lleg. 1 Corp. Juris. ii. 832.
3 kh/rugua. The Ben. note is no doubt right in understanding the word not to refer to any decree on this particular case, but to Basil's general rule in Canon xxx. cf. p. 239. On the use of kh/ougma by Basil, see note on p. 41.
1 Placed at the end of Basil's life.
2 Apparently a schoolfellow of Basil, not to be identified with any of the others of the name.
1 Written in the last years of Basil's life.
1 Written in the last years of Basil's life.
1 Of the same time as the preceding.
1 Placed at the same time as the preceding.
1 Placed in the last years of Basil's life.
1 Placed at the end of Basil's life.
2 A district in Armenia Minor. Ramsay, Hist. Geog. A.M. 314.
3 cf. Ep. ccli. p. 291. Euassai or Evesus is about fifty miles north of Caesarea.