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. 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. 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. 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. 377 · score 0.02
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. 375 · score 0.02
To Fortunatianus. (361) We are truly in a desert with you gone — or rather, in something worse than a desert. For those in a desert associate with neither worse nor better people, but we go searching for the one we should have and keep running into those we would profit from avoiding. The one man who was our sole conso …
libanius · c. 317 · score 0.01
To Julian. (358/59) May your body, as you reported, continue in good health, and may God send relief for your grief. Or rather, part of your grief needs God's help, but part of it you have the power to end yourselves. Rebuilding the city is within reach if you choose to act; but for the sorrow over the dead, comfort mu …
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. 332 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (360) While we were lamenting what has happened to Procopius and praying for his darkness to be lifted, the Cilicians -- the very people who received so many kindnesses from him -- repaid his generosity like Agamemnon [who took what was not his]. Like wolves falling on unguarded sheep, they have plundered …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.01
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. 332 · score 0.01
To Andronicus, a general. (360) Sebon is a Cretan, and he is related by blood to the people you govern -- for he descends from those men born to Zeus after the god carried Europa from Phoenicia across the sea to Crete. He is brimming with learning, as you will discover yourself when you meet and test him, and his educa …
libanius · c. 352 · score 0.01
To Aristainetos. (355 AD) When we heard your wife was ill, we shared your pain, imagining how you must feel as she suffered. And when I learned of her death, I cried out, thinking it a terrible thing that Aristainetos — a man whose nature suits festivals — should be in mourning. I set out to console you with words, but …
libanius · c. 347 · score 0.01
To Bassus. (358 AD) You took from us something very great and gave something in return — not small, I would not say that, but not equal to what you took. For by summoning your son you sent us a letter. His presence meant as much to me as your own company, and though the letter was welcome, it was second to him. May Cal …
libanius · c. 315 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (353) Dionysius did not trample on his oath -- he is returning to you with the letters, just as he swore he would do. But when you call our city "blessed" -- you who were too afraid to live here -- you are having us on. If you truly thought her so fortunate, why did you refuse to share in that good fortu …
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. 388 · score 0.01
To Atarbius. (362) This Tyrannus is both a good man and a skilled physician, a friend of ours, and one who has lived no small time in the imperial palace on account of his art. He has never wronged any man, but has now wronged himself by trusting a man clever at bewitching with words and persuading his listener to gran …
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. 391 · score 0.01
To Parnasios. (~363 AD) When you had fallen into all those Abydene misfortunes, I grieved. Now that you have secured Corinth and your ancestral property, I rejoice. I rejoice too that things have gone as the good Proklos wished — for whom we contributed as much effort as you did. You, no doubt, prayed to the gods for h …
libanius · c. 391 · score 0.01
To Atarbius. (363) Consider this an embassy from the Muses themselves, who want Asteius, one of their dancers, to remain with them a while longer. This Asteius came with no intention of taking up rhetoric, but seeing others acquiring the art, he developed a desire for it, and having gained a portion, he is in mourning …
libanius · c. 376 · score 0.01
To Sopater. (361 AD) Who will win the crown at our festival — whether in wrestling, the pankration, or boxing — Zeus and Heracles know, along with whatever gods oversee those contests. But you, before any athlete has competed, have already defeated every festival-president the sun has ever seen — in excellence, in the …
libanius · c. 376 · score 0.01
To Lysimachus. (361 AD) Lysimachus is truly my pupil, to judge by what he says and writes — both in panegyrics of governors and in practice declamations. No wonder Eros came flying to us, when such a tongue set his wings in motion. As for that sycophant, that beast — he has paid one penalty and will pay another. I fore …
libanius · c. 317 · score 0.01
To Demetrius. (358/59) I mourned for the city itself -- the one I was so glad to see, which I left unwillingly, and which I longed for even while sitting at home -- and before the city, I mourned for the noble Aristaenetus, who was taken by it and with it. I believe that neither lament was really my own; both belonged …
libanius · c. 328 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (359/60?) Theodotus and Charisius are brothers, and their profession is the same. I will add that their principles are the same too: they draft legal documents for people without valuing profit over truth. You have known and loved Theodotus, who has been with us for a long time. As for Charisius, who liv …
libanius · c. 344 · score 0.01
To Sebastianus. (357) I shared your grief at losing your wife, but I also shared your pride in bearing the misfortune nobly. The first was an insult of Fortune; the second shows virtue. You will also find in Rhetorius here no small consolation -- a man who has traveled through the works of many orators and no fewer poe …
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 …