Resultados17 letters/passages
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.02
To Anatolius. (361 AD) What outrages have been committed — not on the Danube near the Scythians, nor at the ends of Libya, but in Phoenicia, the most civilized region of all, where laws exist, governors are in charge, and an emperor lives under arms to keep all violence at bay. A certain Lucianus, a man holding some mi …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.02
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. 345 · score 0.02
To Anatolius. (358) Spectatus — who loves you above all others (whether he is right to do so I cannot say, but that he loves you intensely I know perfectly well) — has returned to us in triumph from the embassy. And thanks to his tongue, we Greeks were not bested by barbarians. Shall I describe the eloquence with which …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.02
She fought back, and her character made her display strength beyond her nature. At this point Lucianus drew a sword — O gods! She welcomed only this: that she might die before any disgrace. When he realized she was ready to give up her very life, he called slaves and ordered them to bring ropes. She was bound on a bed …
libanius · c. 377 · score 0.02
To Anatolios. (~361 AD) You cannot avoid helping the Galatians, whom you once governed, wherever they turn, and I am bound by many reasons to assist them in whatever I can. Aetios, beyond the general claim his citizenship gives him, I love personally for his character, and you too would naturally love him for the same …
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.02
To Anatolius. (358 AD) You know Marcellus, I expect — by his profession and, even before that, by his character, for he is no less a good man than a good doctor. You came to know his skill through other people's ailments — and may you always learn of doctors' abilities that way. But I encountered him in my own misfortu …
libanius · c. 378 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (361) The man who preserves Helladius's household by his tireless efforts is this Martyrius here. The need for a husband [for Helladius's daughter] has once again sent him running on the very errand that brings him to you. He has come to rouse a sluggish suitor — either to lead him to the marriage or, if …
libanius · c. 351 · score 0.01
I knew you would want to hear something great about us, something befitting the city and befitting the hopes that moved me to come here. So as long as nothing of the sort had come about, I thought I should wait. But now there is something to report, so I write. At first, we entered a city of men who did not believe the …
libanius · c. 360 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (356 AD) In my other letters I praised everyone for their eagerness on my behalf. But as for you — that you rallied them too, enlisting the excellent Olympius — I was already convinced of this before anyone reported it, and indeed Antiochus has now confirmed it clearly. You will not, however, share in my …
libanius · c. 346 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (358) Since you say you take the greatest pleasure in being rebuked, and I have a passion for praising good men, I shall gratify both you and myself — praising some things, criticizing others. Your treatment of Tuscianus will provide occasion for both. For when you took up your office and summoned the man …
libanius · c. 346 · score 0.01
To Anatolios. (357/58) Fine work you have done. May such fine work multiply. And I trust I can persuade you by asking you to follow your own precedent. Among the things for which you are praised: much else, but especially that while stationed among the Paeonians you did not forget the people here. Rather, as if you wer …
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.01
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. 375 · score 0.01
To Anatolios. (361) This Hilarinos is a Greek from Euboea — not inexperienced in legal matters. He was devoted to me even before we met. He has now come to the mother of laws [Berytus], imitating Socrates in the belief that every age is fit for learning something noble. Make him one of your circle. If he approaches, re …
libanius · c. 351 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (355) I want my friends, whatever they say, to be seen as speaking the truth. And since I count you among the first of my friends, I work to keep you far from falsehood. It was out of concern for this, my good man, that I kept silent all this time. For if I had written immediately, you would have been a l …
libanius · c. 369 · score 0.01
To Anatolios. (357 AD) What am I to do? You say you want complaints, but everything you do deserves praise. You are harsh toward anyone who praises you, yet you give no grounds for blame. How much praise, then, do you think this deserves? Dometios has been called to share in your responsibilities — a man hardly useless …
libanius · c. 346 · score 0.01
And I proved it by argument. In the middle of winter a letter arrived bringing him greater provision — or, if you prefer, greater rank — good things, but still less than your power and my desire could wish. For to Tuscianus nothing of this is not great, but precisely because of this the man should advance to something …
libanius · c. 346 · score 0.01
When your governorship is praised, he first of all believes it — and that is the mark of a man who knows your nature — and then he rejoices as we do, we who find our greatest joy in your successes. He calls those under your rule blessed and would gladly be under your authority himself. As for his conduct toward us, it …