Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.02
Another earthquake, which was also felt at Constantinople and Nice, swallowed up the remains of Nicomedia on January 1, 363. Homer, Odyssey 24.60 Iliad 16.459. A philosopher to whom Julian addressed his 57th letter. Libanius also wrote several letters to him and mentions him in several others. I have been unable to loc …
libanius · c. 314 · score 0.02
On all accounts I was pleased to see Ablavius but principally because he brought me a letter from you. For sooner than blame you I should detest myself; such has been your attention to the promotion of my interest, amidst this tedious war, which you could not have been if anyone had spoken to my disadvantage. In seemin …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.02
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. 378 · score 0.02
To Julian. (~361 AD) As for the most villainous slave—how he will pay the penalty for both what he said and what he did—that is a matter for the laws and for me. But with your office, also take over the goodwill which the admirable Priscianus held toward Seleukos. In doing this you will make the teachers Kalliopios and …
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.02
To Julian. (358 AD) You have won a double victory — one in arms, the other in letters — and you have raised a trophy from the barbarians and another from me, your friend. This second trophy is a sweet one for the vanquished. Every father prays to be surpassed by his children, and you, having received from me the paths …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.02
Alas! alas! how insatiable is your desire of further attainments! You possess the palm of eloquence, snatched from others, at once "A matchless prince and a most potent sage" Other princes have acted and we applauded, but you excell in both those capacities. For how can we speak so highly in commendation of your action …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
("execrable"). WOLFIUS. In his 394th letter, Libanius writes "The excellent Anatolius has gained two victories over us". Sophists would style their students their 'sons'. See Eunapius on Julian. Julian liked long letters, as appears from his second to Prohaeresius. The gloomy and suspicious Constantius II, who had put …
libanius · c. 360 · score 0.01
To Julian. (356 AD) I was glad to see Ablabius for many reasons, not least because he brought me a letter from you. We will sooner hate ourselves than find any fault with you — so thoroughly have you made it your practice to advance our interests. You are already fighting a regular war, and a long one, out of your refu …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
May the present health and strength that you say you possess be your constant portion! For your grief may God supply a remedy! Or rather your grief requires in part only the assistance of God, for some part of it you yourself can alleviate. You are able, if you please, to re-build the city ; but for your concern on acc …
libanius · c. 370 · score 0.01
To Julian. (357) Now that you have what you requested and what you said you would give, send it along and gratify your homeland with gifts welcome to those coming from it. Word has reached us that the bears in your region perform wonderfully and are so numerous you can even spare some. Even if there were only one, you …
libanius · c. 385 · score 0.01
To the Emperor Julian. (362 AD) If this is the product of a sluggish tongue, what would you be if you sharpened it? But in your mouth dwell springs of eloquence too powerful to need any tributary. We, on the other hand, if not watered daily, have no choice but silence. You seek to receive my speech without an advocate …
libanius · c. 315 · score 0.01
The grief we felt over your illness has itself made us ill -- what pleasure can we have when you're suffering? It fell to Seleucus, it seems, to bring this news as well: that you've passed the worst of the crisis. On that account I consider Entrechiοs a lucky man, since he'll see Bithynia [a province in northwest Asia …
libanius · c. 389 · score 0.01
To Emperor Julian. (363) As much as I blamed the road — for it was harsh — so much and more I blame myself for turning back so quickly, instead of pressing on to the stopping-point itself and granting myself the chance to see that divine head at dawn the next day. For not even the city could console me, doing as badly …
libanius · c. 389 · score 0.01
But for now, cross the rivers and fall upon the archers, more fearsome than any river. After that you will deliberate on the matters you say you will deliberate upon. And do not weary of cheering the absent one by whatever means you have. For I will write, calling forth your letters even from the midst of battle, trust …
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.01
May every blessing be yours, because you have not proved me a liar when I praised your nature — or rather, you have proved me a liar in that nothing I said was as great as what you have shown. One thing, at any rate, is truly yours alone, sprung from no precedent. While others, the moment they attain imperial power, ta …
libanius · c. 363 · score 0.01
That Alexander was appointed to the government at first, I confess, gave me some concern, as the principal persons among us were dissatisfied. I thought it dishonourable, injurious, and unbecoming a prince; and that repeated fines would rather weaken than improve the city. But now the good effects of this severity are …
libanius · c. 314 · score 0.01
The laws and myself will take care that that most abandoned servant shall be punished for what he has said and done. But you, together with the empire, show that you possess also such benevolence as the excellent Priscian displayed to Seleucus . Acting thus, you will induce the preceptors of Arrhabius -- I mean Calliop …
libanius · c. 369 · score 0.01
To Julian. (357) That you would deal gently with the cities I knew well, for such is your nature. But I was delighted to hear that you also have a sting for those who need stinging. Clematios reported this — a man with a sharp sting of his own. I found myself doubly pleased, since the man being praised is my fellow cit …
libanius · c. 379 · score 0.01
To Ioulianos. (361/62) I do not wish to believe that you cared little for the affairs of Ulpianus and Palladius — that you neither honored them as friends, nor respected them as rhetors, nor took into account that your companions share the same labors as you. For many say things that it would not even be proper for me …
libanius · c. 361 · score 0.01
Now then pass the rivers; rush on the archers more impetuously than a torrent; and afterwards think on what you said you would think. But fail not to solace me in your absence as much as you can. I for my part will send letters to extort your answers from the midst of the battle, as I am convinced that you have a geniu …
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. 372 · score 0.01
To Julian. Do not stop overwhelming me with such treatment — keep it up, and with things still greater.
libanius · c. 377 · score 0.01
To Julian. (~361 AD) If you did not already know from what length of time and through how many acts the friendship between us and our good Makedonios was formed and grew, I would first set that out for you. But since you know what brought it into being, it will no longer seem surprising that I think I must help with a …
libanius · c. 362 · score 0.01
This immediately occasioned an apprehension that you had determined to controvert my oration and confute your preceptor and would thus overwhelm Aristophanes like the Nile. We hastened therefore to the excellent Elphidius who, on hearing the cause of our alarm, burst into loud laughter. Thus we recovered our spirits an …
libanius · c. 362 · score 0.01
To Julian of Antioch. (362) Are you then forgetful of us? But Phoenicia does not suffer us to be forgetful of you, as she celebrates your reign in immortal hymns. From your Asia also flows the fame of your actions, increasing our expectations. For nothing that we have heard, great as all these actions are, is so great …