Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 389 · score 0.02
To Antipater. (362/63) You seem to want letters from a scoundrel — whether I have forgotten a friend through length of time or suffered this very thing from some good fortune. And I wonder why you did not count it a gain to be rid of someone afflicted with such faults. As for me, I have my share of the common good fort …
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.02
We fear this may cost them their standing, and we ask you to preserve their status even in their absence. They say that your word is law to Musonius, and indeed it is an old law that the prefect decides such matters for those who hold the post that man now holds. Confirm, then, so fine a reputation through what I now r …
libanius · c. 339 · score 0.02
To Olympius. (358) Your sons will receive every just treatment from us -- first, on the very ground of justice and the obligation so to act for anyone who is not wicked, and second...
libanius · c. 341 · score 0.02
To Eutherius. (357-358) I would not beg you to do well by Heraclides -- I command you. For you seem to me to prefer commands to pleas. The reason? You know how to love no less than how to govern. He would have won some good from you even without a letter, if he had simply stood before you and done what he usually does. …
libanius · c. 355 · score 0.02
We are gaping in expectation -- not for Aeschylus [i.e., a theatrical production], but for your letters and those of our good emperor: his granting the release, and yours confirming that it was granted through your efforts. Know also that a second letter has arrived from there with the same orders, though it is unclear …
libanius · c. 334 · score 0.02
To Eusebius. (360) Let the wild beasts be preserved, let no one slaughter them, let someone provide the spectacle without that, and let the master not be lord of his own property. Such is the letter that has come from the prefect. And we, who used to admire the man for his other qualities, are astonished at this novelt …
libanius · c. 329 · score 0.01
To the same person. (359/60) This is Pales, whom I brought along when you came to stay with us and whom I introduced to you. I believe his face will remind you of what I said about him and what you yourself promised. The time for action has come. Confirm the hopes you gave to both him and me. You will admire the man wh …
libanius · c. 355 · score 0.01
We ask everyone who comes from your region how your health is. About your soul we need not ask -- we know it is good. That much I would say even to strangers. But when we hear you are well, we both rejoice and are puzzled: how is it that a man who knows what a terrible thing illness is -- and how much it requires rest …
libanius · c. 324 · score 0.01
The son of Boethus -- also named Boethus -- manages my affairs, and his father, through our willingness to help however we can, has always been well served by us. I'd be ashamed if the father were more useful to my household than I was to his, even if another person were to help the old man on my account. Now this youn …
libanius · c. 339 · score 0.01
[To the same.] (361?) Among the officers around you, Herodianus is now serving, though previously he fought. He is a man who does good, as he did harm before. I formerly...
libanius · c. 359 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (359/60) What you have long wished to hear has now come to you: a marvelous opportunity for overturning the conviction that fell upon the good Anysius with no justice whatsoever, and that was prevented from becoming firmly fixed only by your clemency. They always asked for a just postponement, and you neve …
libanius · c. 359 · score 0.01
To Araxius. (356 AD) The city has recovered the reality behind its name, and is truly prosperous once more: the council is honored for what it does, the people are not driven out, and laws, good judgment, calm, and gentleness — all of which reside in you — are brought to bear on every matter. For my part, had I not kno …
libanius · c. 342 · score 0.01
To Alexander. (361?) Pray that many people travel through Bithynia, for then you will have many to sing your praises. Everyone who passes through comes away carrying a sense of wonder at your administration. Elpidius, who left our ranks -- or rather, our chorus, for he sang with us but has now joined a different chorus …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
The manner in which you will complete them, and how you will ward some impending dangers, we have sagely discussed. I seemed, as it were, conversing with yourself. With particular pleasure I received the intelligence of your having defeated the barbarians , and that you had related your victories in a commentary , thus …
libanius · c. 328 · score 0.01
To the same person. (358) Do you really think Andronicus is unaware of your merit, or that he would not consider it to his own advantage to safeguard your interests? That is not the case at all. Your fame has reached us even here, and he knows how to admire good governors. Still, since you ask me to, I am writing to a …
libanius · c. 333 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (360?) I am not unaware how great a mass of business surrounds you, nor that you have proven and continue to prove yourself master of it. Indeed, someone came reporting the punishment exacted from those who arrived to carry out the condemnation. So I congratulate you not only on governing with virtue, bu …
libanius · c. 350 · score 0.01
To the same person. (358/59) Your labors truly deserve praise — both those by which you save the cities and those by which you drove off your illness. For I believe it has indeed been expelled by your endurance, Marcellus's skill, and the gods' aid. Those who brought you to us to guard the provinces surely also gave yo …
libanius · c. 341 · score 0.01
To Gerontius. (361) When you took on the governorship of Egypt, I took on the obligation of writing to you about my friends. They were bound to ask me for letters of introduction, and I could offer no excuse for not providing them. First among those who asked and who now carries this letter is Heraclides -- a gentle ma …
libanius · c. 343 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (361?) Let nothing of yours remain incomplete. Do not then let Hyperechius be known or called half a soldier. For this is the sort of name his mockers use...
libanius · c. 321 · score 0.01
To the same person. (359) You invited me to speak freely, promising to bear whatever I might say. But Aeschylus deters me, saying that inferiors should not be bold of tongue. And Euripides adds that the proud -- meaning your sort, no doubt -- take it badly when those beneath them speak words that cut too deep. Still, s …
libanius · c. 332 · score 0.01
To Nicentius. (360) You are still writing letters, when we expected to see you in person! We had heard that you were summoned and on your way, but it seems to me that while you may have been summoned, you chose to stay put -- the Nile having persuaded you that it is better to live in luxury in Egypt than to toil elsewh …
libanius · c. 355 · score 0.01
When I saw Clematius, I was pleased -- and yet the pleasure was not without pain. It is delightful to see a friend, but painful that the man is not at your side. For subordinates deserve to share in their commanders' good fortune. If this man has done anything wrong, tell me so we can punish him. But if someone has sim …
libanius · c. 327 · score 0.01
To the same person. (358-361) I believe that even after hearing the merits of their case, you would vote to grant relief to the men carrying this letter. Their claims struck me as substantial, and they will not seem trivial to you either. It seems to me that even if they had none of their current arguments, the single …
libanius · c. 345 · score 0.01
To Μαξίμῳ. (357) By now the kinsmen of Gaudentius ought to be writing us about all the good you have done them. But since they are about to be well treated — for so one must put it — I still urge you to look favorably on Alexander and Pasion, on whose behalf we made our case to you in person and watched you nod your pr …
libanius · c. 345 · score 0.01
To Maximus. (357/58) It is simply not right that the dependents of Tiberinus should suffer — a man excellent in every way, who introduces the poets into the souls of the young. For even though he does his work here among us, he deserves to be honored not only here but also at home, since through his teaching he benefit …