Pseudo-Basil

Pseudo-Basil is the designation used by scholars for any anonymous author of a text falsely or erroneously attributed to Basil of Caesarea. Pseudo-Basilian works are usually known by Latin titles. They are often misattributed only in translation. They include:


 * Ad Caesarienses apologia de secessu, a letter actually by Evagrius Ponticus
 * Ad Chilonem discipulum suum
 * Admonitio ad filium spiritualem, a Latin text and a partial Old English translation
 * Admonitio ad iuniores
 * Canones, an Arabic text and some Coptic fragments
 * Constitutiones asceticae
 * Contra Eunomium 4–5 (books 1–3 are authentic)
 * De consotatione in aduersis
 * De reliquis Dionysii, the sequel to an authentic letter to Ambrose of Milan
 * De spiritu
 * De virginitate ad Letoium, an Old Church Slavonic translation from Greek, actually by Basil of Ancyra
 * De vita in Christo, a Coptic translation from Greek, also misattributed to Athanasius
 * Dialogus IV de sancta Trinitate, an Armenian translation from Greek and Syriac fragments, also misattributed to Athanasius
 * Doctrina, quoted in the Georgian Ethika of Euthymius the Athonite
 * Epitimia
 * Epitimia diversorum sanctorum de refectorio
 * Erotapokriseis Basilii et Gregorii, an Arabic translation from Greek of an erotapokriseis sometimes also misattributed to John Chrysostom
 * Liturgia sancti Basilii alexandrina, a Greek liturgy of the Alexandrian rite, also known in Arabic, both Bohairic and Sahidic Coptic and Ethiopic versions
 * Transitus de dormitione Deiparae, a Georgian translation from Greek

Numerous apocryphal Basilian letters exist: to Bishop Eusebius of Samosata; to Eustathius, archiatrus and son of Oribasius; to Bishop Innocent of Tortona; to the Emperor Julian the Apostate; to Libanius; "to a lapsed monk" (ad monachum lapsum); to the Emperor Theodosius I; to the monk Urbicius on continence; and "to a widow" (ad viduam).