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Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae

English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.

217.16

Ὁ γοητείαν ἢ φαρμακείαν ἐξαγορεύων τὸν τοῦ φονέως χρόνον ἐξομολογήσεται, οὕτως οἰκονομούμενος, ὡς ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ ἁμαρτήματι ἑαυτὸν ἐλέγξας.

He who confesses to sorcery or pharmakeia [the use of drugs, as poison or as magic] shall do penance for the term set for a murderer, being dealt with as though he had convicted himself of that sin.

Translator's note. 'That sin' probably means murder.

The whole original: Perseus's Scaife Viewer.