6/36 1-128.)] [Footnote 28: Unless Gregory Nazianzen mistook thirty years in his own age, he was born, as well as his friend Basil, about the year 329. The preposterous chronology of Suidas has been graciously received, because it removes the scandal of Gregory's father, a saint likewise, begetting children after he became a bishop, (Tillemont, Mem.Eccles.tom.ix. p. 8,) which burst from the heart, and speak the pangs of injured and lost friendship. ----In the Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena addresses the same pathetic complaint to her friend Hermia:--Is all the counsel that we two have shared. |