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sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
But if verses devoid of ease and happiness cannot win approval, you too will find nothing pleasing on the page I append below. [The poem that follows describes the barbarian peoples gathered at the court of Euric in Bordeaux:] Why do you try to rouse the Muses now, Lampridius, glory of our poetry, and force me to compo …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
To the Lord Bishop Graecus [Bishop of Marseille]. Here once again our Amantius — that gossipmonger of ours — returns to his Marseille, doubtless planning to bring home some profit from the city's markets, if only a favorable cargo-ship should arrive. Through him I would chatter at length in a lighter vein, if my heart …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
To Ecdicius. If ever there was a time when my people in the Auvergne [Clermont-Ferrand, the central city of the Arverni in south-central Gaul] needed you, it is now. Their love for you is overwhelming, and for many reasons. First, the land that gave you birth claims the deepest share of your affection by right. Second, …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
When daylight revealed that their clumsy fraud had exposed their losses, they finally undertook proper funeral rites in the open — concealing their disaster by speed no better than they had concealed it by deception. They did not even give the bones a proper mound of turf; the unwashed dead received neither clean garme …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
For the sake of the hope of this glorious peace, we tore herbs from the cracks in the city walls for food, often poisoned by unfamiliar plants whose undistinguished leaves and green juices were gathered by hands as pale as famine itself. And for all these proofs of devotion, we are told that our people have been sacrif …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
4. He was being held in custody on the Capitoline, under the guard of his host Flavius Asellus, Count of the Sacred Largesses, who still revered in him the half-extinguished dignity of a prefecture so recently torn away. Meanwhile the envoys of the province of Gaul -- Tonantius Ferreolus, a former prefect and grandson …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
In the midst of all this water, we were thirsty, because nowhere was there a clean aqueduct, a settleable cistern, a flowing spring, or an unsullied well. 7. Moving on from there, we came to the Rubicon, which takes its name from the crimson color of its gravel, and which was once the boundary between the Cisalpine Gau …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Their entire battle line withdrew at once to the ridge of a steep hill; though they had been pressing the siege, the moment they saw you they refused to form up for battle. Meanwhile, you cut down their best fighters — men whose courage, not cowardice, had placed them at the rear — and without losing a single one of yo …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius To His Dear Constantius, greetings. Salutat the people Arvernus, cuius parva tuguria magnus hospes implesti, non ambitiosus comitatu sed ambiendus affectu. deus bone, quod gaudium fuit laboriosis, when tu sanctum pedem semirutis moenibus intulisti! quam tu ab omni ordine sexu aetate stipatissimus ambiebare! qu …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Secundus [Sidonius's kinsman, since they share the same grandfather/great-uncle]. Yesterday — the grief of it! — profane hands nearly violated the tomb of my grandfather and your great-grandfather. The cemetery has long been so packed with cremated remains and buried corpses that for some time no fresh grave could b …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Hesperius, greetings. 1. I love in you your love of letters, and I strive to honor with the fullest praise the generosity of a dedication through which you commend not only your own beginnings but our own efforts as well. For when we see the talents of the younger generation growing up in this very …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Vincentius, greetings. 1. The fate of Arvandus [the Praetorian Prefect of Gaul, tried for treason in Rome around 469 AD] distresses me, and I do not pretend otherwise. For this too redounds to the emperor's credit: that one may openly love even those condemned to death. I was a friend to the man, a …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
After this proof of heavenly patronage, I was received in a lodging we had hired, and even now, writing these lines while reclining, I am giving a little time to rest. 10. I have not yet presented myself at the turbulent doors of the emperor and his court. For I arrived just in time for the wedding of the patrician Ric …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his friend Hypatius. If the distinguished Donidius — an admirer and champion of your character — had been thinking only of his domestic advantage, your good faith would have been more than enough for his interests, even without an intercessor. But he was led by his affection for me to ask me to petition for …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Heronius, greetings. 1. I received your letter while in Rome. You ask anxiously whether my journey is proceeding according to our joint plan, what sort of road I have traveled, which rivers I have seen that are famous in the songs of poets, which cities are renowned for the setting of their walls, …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Agroecius, greetings. 1. I have come to Bourges [Bituriges] at the request of the citizens. The reason for this summons was the tottering state of the church, which, recently widowed of its supreme pontiff, had sounded a kind of trumpet call for candidates from both the clerical and lay orde …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
He was strangled at home by the hands of his slaves — murdered in his bed with his breathing choked off and his throat bound tight, dying, if not the death of Lentulus or Jugurtha or Sejanus, then at least that of Scipio Numantinus [all Romans said to have been murdered in their beds]. The one consolation in this catas …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
4. Passing the mouths of the marshy Lambro, the blue Adda, the swift Adige, and the sluggish Mincio -- rivers that rise in the Ligurian and Euganean mountains -- I traveled briefly upstream and observed them in their very channels. Their banks and meadows were clothed everywhere with groves of oak and maple. Here the s …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
4. For just as nothing becomes a new bride less than a more beautiful bridesmaid, and just as if you dress in white, any dark person looks blacker still, so my work -- such as it is -- surrounded by the more powerful trumpets, is reduced to a worthless straw, which is pronounced the more contemptible for being placed i …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 479 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Turnus, greetings. 1. How fittingly the words of the Mantuan poet apply to your name and your situation: "Turnus, what no god would have dared to promise the hopeful, see -- the turning of days has brought unbidden." Your father Turpio, a man of tribunician rank, some time ago -- if you recall -- b …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
They were called and admitted. The parties, as is customary, took their positions on opposite sides. The former prefects were offered the right to sit before the opening of the case. Arvandus, with his characteristic unlucky impudence, strode forward and virtually thrust himself into the very laps of the judges. Ferreo …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his son Apollinaris. It would be only fair to curb my loquacity with the same silence you have imposed on me. But since perfect love ought to remember what it owes rather than keep account of what has been repaid, I once again — loosening the reins of modesty — repeat the tribute of this shameless correspon …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
7. But after two months or more, when certain travelers reported that the man, now departed (all too quickly even by our reckoning), was secretly carrying in sealed bundles the treasures of a sacred treasury, I sent swift horses in pursuit of the departing guest -- horses that could easily have devoured the distance of …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
But to prevent future accidents — which we should learn to avoid from this example — I ask that your care, at my expense, even in my absence, should raise the scattered rubble into a proper monument, covered with a polished slab. I left money for the stone and the labor with the venerable Gaudentius. As for the followi …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Lupus [not the bishop, but a literary friend]. How are your Nitiobroges and Vesunnici [the peoples of Agen and Perigueux] — between whom there is always a holy contest over which has the greater claim on you? One people holds you by inheritance, the other by marriage too; one by birth, the other by wedding — but bet …