Resultados25 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 Agroicius and Eusebius. (361 AD) If this is how things stand, then necessity is stronger even than the gods, as the saying of the wise goes. For my part, considering both your hardships there and how affairs here are going worse for you — those who would have helped being absent — I was disheartened and thought you …
libanius · c. 331 · score 0.02
To Ambrosius, Quaestor. (360) We were not ourselves when you were visiting. That terrible time [under Emperor Constantius II's restrictions on pagan practice] was driving us to distraction -- stripping away the greatest, finest, most precious things, some already gone, with the same threat hanging over the rest. Nor ar …
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. 385 · score 0.02
To Hierius. (362 AD) Mine was a desire not entirely unreasonable; yours was the wiser counsel. "What the old man pursues," as the verse says, "he will consider so that nothing goes wrong." You will perhaps be annoyed if I call you old — as though I myself were still growing my first beard! I admit I am old — even if I …
libanius · c. 350 · score 0.02
To Strategius. (358/59) Before I had cleanly recovered from the affliction in my head, a greater evil seized me — one that filled my soul with darkness, on account of which many friends sat beside me for a long time, trying every incantation to preserve my sanity. For what do you think I became when I learned that my d …
libanius · c. 343 · score 0.01
To Themistius. (361?) You used to chafe at your education, thinking you were wasting your effort on a useless pursuit. But it turns out you were going to need those weapons after all...
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
To Acacius. (358/59) I too am one of those overwhelmed by that great wave. Aristaenetus is dead -- O Zeus -- and the second blow has all but destroyed me, since the divine power did not even spare the head of Hierocles. Because of all this, I have fallen silent and will remain so, at least in public gatherings. But tho …
libanius · c. 370 · score 0.01
To Sabinos. (359?) Your difficulties have been resolved — resolved by the labors of Mariades. I received your letter when the troubles had already ended, so I asked: "How then should I help?" He replied that no help was needed, and that this was a time for rejoicing. So I rejoiced, and I wrote.
libanius · c. 361 · score 0.01
To Basileios. (356) Oh, for those times when we were everything to each other! Now we have been bitterly separated — you still have each other, but I have no one to replace you. I hear that Alkimos dares youthful ventures in his old age and has flown off to Rome, leaving you the labor of looking after the students. But …
libanius · c. 316 · score 0.01
To Hygieinus. (358/59) I did not forget the agreement we had about exchanging letters. I was prevented from keeping it by a host of troubles. First, my head laid me low with a flood of dizzy spells, and neither I nor my doctors could feel any confidence. Then the affliction moved down to my stomach, producing discharge …
libanius · c. 377 · score 0.01
To Italicianus. (361 AD) If I did not know you as a man who understands friendship — one who has often worried and labored so that some good might come to his companions — I would be quite afraid that the volume of my letters might annoy you. But since you yourself are among those who praise Achilles [for loyalty to fr …
libanius · c. 378 · score 0.01
To Mariane. (~361 AD) I knew well that you would hold to the agreement about the parchment; and what you ask to be arranged for you—we will see to it that it happens quickly, for any failure to act lies with the one who will not act. Our city, though settled by the sea, is battered by many waves, and if you ask about f …
libanius · c. 341 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (359/360) My companions -- your rhetors -- the men I gave to you and you admired -- these very men who carry this letter are now the target of decrees by which certain people are trying to drag them away from your doors. And these are the same people I have repeatedly rescued from your justified anger. Or …
libanius · c. 383 · score 0.01
I am delighted to receive your letters -- not only because a letter from a friend is the sweetest thing, but because it serves as proof that the country is clear of enemies. That is what Julian's mere expectation accomplishes. Those who came before him only made the enemy bolder. As for the present security, the good P …
libanius · c. 341 · score 0.01
To Eusebius. (359/360) We take refuge at the same Athena on the same kind of business. Recently you snatched a young man from the fire for us, enduring labors such as a man would undertake for his own son. The same labors and the same eagerness are needed now -- or rather, much more. For this Agroicius is no different …
libanius · c. 362 · score 0.01
To Aristainetus. Leontius never delivered the letter. Either he claimed to have received it when he had not, or he took it and lost it. And Themistius, who said he would bring one the next day, turned around and said he had nothing after all -- you had written it, apparently, but never sealed it. What am I supposed to …
libanius · c. 391 · score 0.01
To Maximus. (363 AD) "I ask for Arcadia — a great thing I ask." But changing the last word I shall say: you will give it, for you have already given many other things greater than Arcadia, when you freed so many Armenians who had been led under the yoke for no short time. Now then, that this Leontius not experience the …
libanius · c. 330 · score 0.01
To Eusebius and Faustus. (360) If we did not trust you completely, we would not have sent a servant and a ship to Sinope. We are well aware that you are the city -- that if you lend your support, everything runs before a fair wind, and if you oppose... but I will write nothing ominous in a letter. Noble friends, now is …
libanius · c. 373 · score 0.01
To Eudaemon. (361 AD) The man who brought me your letter but brought you accusations against me instead of a letter from me was, I suspect, a poor messenger. He did not act on the judgment of someone who wanted to receive a letter, but on the mere appearance of wanting one. So do not trust him in his accusations; let t …
libanius · c. 372 · score 0.01
To Palladius. (361 AD) So you weren't actually longing for the speeches — you just wanted to be seen longing for them. You couldn't bring yourself to leave a single servant here for even one day. But I'm sending them anyway, to someone who has no need of them. Because it's obvious: the next time we met, you'd have been …
libanius · c. 342 · score 0.01
To Gerontius. (361?) Sebon is of the noblest Cretan stock, most distinguished among the Greeks, and dearest of men to us. Runaway slaves have... and a refuge sufficient...
libanius · c. 350 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (358/59) Many are those who announce that you are coming, but we do not yet see the deed. So turn this shadow of pleasure into true joy for us. If the affairs along the Euphrates needed attention, they have been adequately tended to. If it was necessary for people to learn who you are under a blazing sun, …
libanius · c. 387 · score 0.01
To Demetrius. (362) The moment I received your letter, in which you asked for the restoration of the old honors, I ran to the excellent Salutius and listed those who had received them — the same ones you named to me. "Grant it, then," I said, "after so many others, to the man who should have received it before them all …
libanius · c. 333 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (360) I shared in the joy of Georgius, who shared the grief of the Alexandrians' misfortunes, and I shared your joy too at receiving speeches on their behalf from the very man who had formerly fought against them. What remains then? Gratify yourself, him, us, and the gods of Egypt. The gold will arrive sho …