The following two short pieces have been commonly ascribed to St Basil the Great; since the Venice edition of 1535 they have been printed among his works (Anand: Revue bénédict., t. LVI, pp. 162 sq., nn. 7, 8). In the Maurist edition (Paris, 1721-30) they follow the Moralia, and immediately precede the Regulae fusius tractatae. This text, with the accont panying Latin translation, was reprinted at Paris in 1839 (S.P.N. Basilii … opera omnia, t. II, pp. 445-456), and less accurately by Migne (Patrol. Graeca, t. XXXI, col. 869-888). The Paris text of 1839 is here followed, though the division into short paragraphs, and their headings, are the translator's.