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sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
… because he was elevated through the highest titles of office all the way to the imperial throne. But I can never agree with the proposition that men who stand on the perilous and slippery heights of political power are fortunate. For the hourly miseries endured in this life by those so-called happy men are beyond descr …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
And the illustrious Gratianensis added: "A wide field for satirists is opened by this quarrel." At this the emperor turned his head toward me: "I hear, Count Sidonius, that you write satire." "And I, my lord," I replied, "hear the same thing." Then he said, but laughing: "Spare us at least." "But I," I said, "spare mys …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Forbidden by the weight of his cares from maintaining the measured routine of his former peace, he instantly abandoned the rules of his old way of life and realized that the business of an emperor and the leisure of a senator simply cannot coexist. Nor did the future disappoint his present gloom. For though he had sail …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
… inst you can in no way be proved. At the same time, it is deeply unjust for the imperial judgment to lend its weight to private grudges, so that an innocent and carefree nobility is endangered on account of certain hatreds by an uncertain charge." When I bowed my head respectfully in thanks for this verdict, the faces …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
You bring the banner of the cross you have long carried to those wretched men who, through their own folly, still sit weighed down by the burdens of the flesh, and you extend the hand of your words to those who are wounded in conscience. You know how, seasoned commander that you are, to gather the wounded from the oppo …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Beyond them lay Paeonius, and then Athenius, a man seasoned by the vicissitudes of lawsuits and politics. After him came Gratianensis, a man who should be kept well apart from any hint of infamy, who though he ranked below Severinus in honor surpassed him in favor. I reclined last, where the left margin of the emperor' …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
6. When Marcellian's conspiracy to seize the diadem was being hatched, Paeonius had set himself up as the standard-bearer for the noble young men in the faction -- still a newcomer even in old age -- until at last, thanks to his proven record of fortunate daring, the crack of a gaping interregnum shed a gleam of light …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his lord, Bishop Lupus [of Troyes]. Blessed be the Holy Spirit and the Father of God Almighty — for you, father of fathers, bishop of bishops, a second James [the Apostle] in our generation, from your watchtower of love, from a Jerusalem no less exalted, look down upon every member of God's Church with your …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
8. At this I marveled at the excessive pride of the one group and the excessive humility of the other, but refrained from asking the reasons. Then one of the factious crowd, planted for the purpose, came up to greet me. In the course of our conversation he said: "Do you see these people?" "I see them," I said, "and I w …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Bishop Principius. Venerable Father, although I have not yet seen your face, I have long known your deeds. The renown of holy men spreads beyond any boundary: where there is no limit to a good conscience, there is no limit to a good reputation either. Think me a liar if you will — unless a witness worthy of my claim …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Like Tantalus, the terrified man dared not open his mouth, lest the food that entered it exit through a wound. After many tears and desperate prayers, he was barely released — and he fled that royal luxury and those regal delicacies with the same speed that men usually pursue them. He returned to the desires of ordinar …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 457 · score 0.01
There, as you held forth midway between the rules of spiritual discourse and the conventions of the forum -- being most learned in both disciplines -- we crowded round you with senses uplifted and ears bent, finding you all too brief for our desire even as you had fully satisfied our judgment. 6. For these reasons I ha …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 457 · score 0.01
Therefore to compose letters of any polish is either untimely to ask of me or impudent for me to attempt; letters that are either witty in humor or elegant in style belong to the fortunate. Indeed, there is a certain barbarism of character in cheerful speech coming from an afflicted soul. 4. Rather, I beg you to endow …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to the Abbot Chariobaudus. You do a thing, my singular patron in Christ, that is in keeping with both your love and your way of life: you soften the cares of a friend in exile with letters of consolation. If only you would always remember me in this way — so that the anxieties that chain themselves together in …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Montius, greetings. 1. You ask me, most eloquent sir, as you set out for your Sequani [the region around Besancon], to send you a certain satire that I have supposedly written. I am amazed that you would make such a request, for it is not right to think ill so quickly of a friend's character. Was I …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 480 · score 0.01
After the long progress of years and labors, he became archdeacon -- in which rank or ministry he was held for a long time on account of his industry, unable to be advanced in dignity precisely so that he might not be released from his authority.) Nevertheless, this man, now already a priest of the second order, amid t …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
the commissioned letter might neither be denied to friendship when written, nor subjected to your censure when read. 2. Let us put that aside. You command that another copious page be sent. The will to obey is present in one eager to comply, but the occasions are lacking. For a mere greeting, unless some business of ac …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Oresius. Your letter arrived — sparkling and salty as the rock-salt quarried in the hills of Tarragona. For the reader it is both clear and pungent, yet no less sweet for all that, since a pleasant style can coexist with sharp propositions. It delights with its eloquence even as it commands with its authority — for …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
I, the most unworthy of mortals, am forced to preach what I refuse to practice, and, condemned by my own words for failing to live up to what I teach, I am daily compelled to pass sentence upon myself. But if you, a Moses younger though not lesser than the first, will stand as intercessor between me and the Lord to who …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
You bind up their slick arguments in chains of categorical logic, in the manner of skilled physicians who, when reason requires, prepare even from the serpent a remedy against its poison. 16. But all this belongs in our time only to the contemplation of your conscience and the power of your learning. For who could foll …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To the Lord Bishop Nunechius. We rejoice, most blessed bishop, that so many kinds of virtue have been heaped upon you by heavenly gift. For you are reported to carry your nobility without arrogance, your power without envy, your piety without superstition, your learning without pretension, your gravity without dullness …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 457 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Faustus, greetings. 1. Your eloquence and your devotion alike maintain their accustomed standard, and for this reason we admire your speech all the more because you write so finely, and your affection because you write so willingly. For the present, however, with your permission first sought …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 480 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Domnulus, greetings. 1. I cannot delay sharing with you this great joy, for you are surely eager to learn what our father in Christ and bishop, Patiens, accomplished at Chalon-sur-Saone in the manner of his accustomed piety and constancy. When he had arrived at the aforementioned city, attended in …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Aquilinus. I count it as a debt you owe me, most excellent of men — if you agree that the reasons for our friendship are as strong as the friendship itself. What I am claiming is an inheritance. I call as witnesses our grandfathers, Apollinaris and Rusticus, whose praiseworthy intimacy was forged by the similarity o …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
13. She has been your attendant from your earliest years, your inseparable companion at your side, whether you trained in the urban arena or were worn down in remote solitudes, your partner in the academy and in the monastery alike; with you she renounces worldly disciplines, with you she proclaims the heavenly. Whoeve …