Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.02
… uly yours alone, sprung from no precedent. While others, the moment they attain imperial power, take on a love of money — some beginning to crave what they never desired before, others intensifying a passion already dwelling in them — you alone, upon entering into power, gave away your patrimony to your companions: a h …
libanius · c. 385 · score 0.02
To Bacchius. (362 AD) Tend to the sacred rites, my dear Bacchius — with abundant sacrifices, precision in the mysteries, and the restoration of what has fallen. You must show piety toward the gods, gratify the emperor, and make your homeland more beautiful. But do grant favors too, even as you guard your zeal. The Grac …
libanius · c. 314 · score 0.02
Unless you were well apprised how long ago my friendship with the excellent Macedonius was contracted, and for what reasons it has been since improved, of these I would first apprise you; but knowing as you do its foundation, you will not wonder that I, who would decline no danger for my friends, should devote to his s …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.02
To Italicianus. (361) The profit is yours, if you are seen to benefit the household of Bassiana, a woman who deserves every fine word I can say about her. See to it, then, that you seize the opportunity and prove more generous to Rufinus than he himself would ask. He has come to inspect their land in Asia and to set ri …
libanius · c. 328 · score 0.02
To Andronicus. (358-361) We have received a wonderful report about both of you -- Hypatius and yourself -- and you should know that you fully deserve the title you bear: true governors. We congratulate those your subjects are saving, and you, as is natural, congratulate each other -- he because such a man is tending hi …
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. 377 · score 0.01
To Amphilochius. (~361 AD) I have told the excellent Phosphorus [the new governor] what sort of man you are — your character, your learning, and your children, for by now your sons are a source of honor to you. He received my words well and said he would do everything so that matters turn out well for both you and me. …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
Many blessing attend you for showing that when I celebrated your talents I was not a liar, or rather for having shown that I was a liar in promising nothing equal to what you have performed! This is all your own, and copied from no model. For though some, together with the empire, have assumed the love of money, contra …
libanius · c. 339 · score 0.01
To Andronicus. (361) I was glad that Hermeias and his family, having obtained justice, both praise you themselves and lead the rhetors, who at that time wrote on their behalf, to even greater...
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.01
To the same. (~358 AD) This Domnus had a good father and an even better father-in-law — for he married the daughter of Celsus, thanks to whom Syrians are not strangers to the Italian language. But Domnus himself is the kind of man who, even without either of those connections, would rightly be honored for his character …
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. 362 · score 0.01
I have discharged my obligations to Aristophanes , but you, in return, have given me such splendid tokens of a vehement affection as are conspicuous both to gods and men. So that now I seem almost to soar into the sky, elevated by your letter, which has inspired me with such hopes and has so decorated my oration that a …
libanius · c. 344 · score 0.01
To Alypius. (358) On account of the greatness of your office I count you blessed; on account of the virtue with which you govern I commend you. I say this is a credit to our city, from which you have your knowledge of governing, since rhetoric comes from her, and an honor to the city that taught you is the student who …
libanius · c. 340 · score 0.01
To the same person. (361?) The man who makes my lecture hall a fine theater is the rhetor Megethius. He shouts with the volume of fifty men, and with that voice he has often stopped a speaker in his tracks. A warm listener who interrupts the flow of a speech with cries of wonder is, I think, a great thing for any speak …
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. 354 · score 0.01
Do you realize that it speaks well of you that men of letters like me dare to write to a man of arms like you? This is proof, I think, that you are fierce toward enemies but gentle with your own people -- exactly as the old saying goes: the man in your position must be good at both. Other generals we see only from a di …
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. 362 · score 0.01
To the same. (~362) I thought that your office and the press of business would make you no longer as good a letter-writer. But it turns out you manage both — you preserved that gift as well. You have even beaten me, who do nothing but write, in sheer volume. As for quality, it is equal. All grain and gold seem small to …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
You have gained a double victory , one by your arms, the other by your eloquence. One trophy is erected to you by the barbarians, and the other by me your friend; a trophy this most pleasing even to a conqueror. For all parents wish to be excelled by their children , and you, who by me have been instructed in writing, …
libanius · c. 379 · score 0.01
To Maximos. (361/62) Stop saying great things about small matters — my letters. Stop also persuading others to say the same about them, fearing the law that stands against deceivers. Transfer the magnitude of your praises to the noble Photeinios, to whom god gave a sharp mind, a lofty spirit, harmonious grace, and a ca …
libanius · c. 379 · score 0.01
You seem to have forgotten the state of both my mind and my body if you actually expected to see me among the embassy's delegation. I am not the sort to rush off on such missions, and even if I desperately wanted to, I could not -- a man for whom simply getting from home to the marketplace is a labor. As for the things …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (361 AD) Herodianus has been granted a short leave by us, so that he may go and see the small piece of land he owns. But he needs even the modest income from Phoenicia, since what he earns from his craft [rhetoric] is even smaller. For the rise of those who had no right to greatness has diminished the for …
libanius · c. 379 · score 0.01
To Auxentios. (361/62) Even when you were staging those remarkable spectacles, purchasing glory with money, I considered it an honor to be associated with you. And now I delight in the honor conveyed by the skin, and though I was not present to witness the beasts' exploits, I can judge from the hide what the leopard di …
libanius · c. 325 · score 0.01
… porting certain threats: they've been told they'll be punished for wronging the imperial estates by making us masters of land that belongs to the emperor. It seems to me they haven't actually heard any such thing -- they just fear it. And it's no surprise: men who spend their days with plows and oxen tend to invent ter …
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 …