Basil, bishop of Cappadocia from 370 to 379 CE, built a "new city," as it was called by Gregory of Nazianzus (Or. 43; 63), which, in honor of its founder, was then called "Basileiad" (see Soz. Hist. eccl. 6.34.9: "Basileiad, a famous hospice for the poor which was founded by Basil, bishop of Caesarea (Basil of Caesarea), from which at the beginning it took the name it keeps today" around 450 CE; Firm. Caes. Ep. 43 speaks of "the poor who live in Basileiad"): it had been create…