Resultados25 letters/passages
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. It is owing to the situation of the free city of Byzantium, and the fact that so many travellers make their way into it from all sides, that, in conformity with established precedent, I have decided to send them a legionary centurion to protect their privileges. If I were to decide to assist the people …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. I agree with the construction you place on the law, my dear Pliny, and I think that the Lex Pompeia is superseded by the edict of Augustus to the extent that persons not less than twenty-two years of age are eligible for office, and that, having held it, they necessarily become senators in all the free …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. You need have had no hesitation, my dear Pliny, on the point concerning which you have thought it necessary to consult me, for you are well aware of my fixed resolve not to seek to make people respect my name by fear and terrorism and charges of treason. Dismiss the inquiry, therefore, which I should n …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. The permits, of which the terms have expired, ought not to be recognised, and consequently I make it my special duty to send out new permits to all the provinces before the day when they are required.
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. You have done quite right, my dear Pliny, in cancelling the expenditure by the people of Byzantium of those twelve thousand sesterces on a delegate to come and pay their respects to me. They will for the future do their duty well enough, even though the decree alone is sent on to me through you. The go …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. It is impossible for me to draw up a general rule as to whether newly-made senators in every city in Bithynia ought or ought not to pay an honorarium as entrance money. I think that the laws of each city should be observed - which is always the safest course to adopt . . . * [Note: The end of this lett …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. As the people of Nicaea declare that Augustus conferred upon them the right to enjoy the property of those citizens who die intestate, you must inquire into the matter, and summon before you all who are concerned in the question, including Virdius Gemellinus and Epimachus, my freedman, who are procurat …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. The memorial of the people of Apamea which you enclosed with your letter makes it unnecessary for me to examine into the reasons why they wish it to be known that those who have until now acted as proconsuls in the province refrained from inspecting their accounts, though they have no objection to your …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. You did right to hesitate, my dear Pliny, before giving your answer to the censors who consulted you about the admission to the senate of citizens belonging to other cities but to the same province. For the authority of the law, and the old-established custom of acting contrary to it, naturally pulled …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. If permission has been granted to the people of Amisus, whose memorial you enclosed with your letter, in the laws which govern the terms of their alliance, to make a collection for the poor, we have no reason to prevent them ; and we can permit it the more readily in that the collection is utilised for …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. Steps must certainly be taken to provide the city of Nicomedia with a water-supply, and I have every confidence that you will undertake the duty with all necessary diligence. But I swear that it is also part of your diligent duty to find out who is to blame for the waste of such sums of money by the pe …
avitus_vienne · c. 490 · score 0.01
For when the apostle famously declared that an accusation should not even be received against a priest [1 Timothy 5:19], what shall we think about charges brought against the head of the universal church? The venerable council itself, with a praiseworthy decision, recognized this: the case it had — with all due respect …
ennodius_pavia · c. 518 · score 0.01
He provides what is necessary who brings orphans and foreigners to the attention of the parent of all: the only path is the consolation of your apostolate, which heals strangers. Far be it from me to call afflicted those whom it befalls to reach you: parents, homeland, and wealth are not sought elsewhere by those whom …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. I approve your apprehension that there is a look of bribery about invitations which are given on a wholesale scale and exceed due limits, and bring people together in whole societies, as it were, to receive customary presents, which is a very different thing from giving a present to each man because yo …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. The legal position of the cities of Bithynia and Pontus, in getting in moneys which may be due to them for any reason, must be determined by consulting the special laws of each city. If they possess the privilege of ranking as preferential creditors, it must be respected ; if they do not, then I will n …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. I have read the memorial which you sent to me from Publius Attius Aquila, a centurion of the sixth cohort of horse, and I have been moved by his entreaties to bestow upon his daughter the Roman citizenship. I am sending you a copy of the order, which you will please hand over to him.
epistulae_langobardorum · c. 641 · score 0.01
Rothari, king of the Lombards, to the most holy Bishop John. I write to you in the spirit of the correspondence that has existed between the Lombard kings and the bishops of Rome for the past three generations, which I regard as useful to both parties even when we do not agree on all things. The specific matter: I have …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. As my freedman Maximus is on the point of setting out to collect stores of corn you did right to give him a guard of soldiers, for he was engaged on an extraordinary errand. But when he returns to his old duties, the two soldiers you assigned him and two more from Virdius Gemellinus, my procurator, who …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. You assuredly know, my dear Pliny, how sparingly I grant these favours, for I often declare in the senate that I have not exceeded the number with which I told that august order I should be content. However, I have granted your request, and I have ordered a note to be entered on my diaries that I have …
epistulae_merowingici · c. 604 · score 0.01
Theudebert, king, to the most holy Pope Gregory. I write to the successor of Peter with the reverence due his office and with several requests that I believe are within his pastoral authority to grant. First: the ecclesiastical situation in several cities of my kingdom where the episcopal succession has been disputed r …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. You have given me an abundance of private and all the public reasons I could desire for asking leave of absence, but, personally, I should have been quite content to accept the mere expression of your wish, for I have not the slightest doubt that you will return as early as you possibly can to resume y …
cicero_familiares · c. -43 · score 0.01
If I doubted your goodwill toward me, I would ask you at great length to protect my dignity. But it is surely the case, as I have persuaded myself, that you care about me. I have advanced against the Inalpini with my army, not so much seeking the title of imperator as wishing to satisfy my soldiers and make them firm i …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. I am glad to learn from your letter, my dear Pliny, with what devotion and joy the troops and the provincials have celebrated the anniversary of my coming to the throne, repeating the formula at your dictation.
boniface · c. 742 · score 0.01
Peter's word and the Apostolic See's command, which neither present nor future generations will presume to change in defiance of the authority of the Apostolic See. Let it be known to you also, Holy Father, that Carloman, Emperor of the Franks, summoned me to his presence and desired me to convoke a synod in that part …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. What steps ought to be taken with respect to those who were banished for three years by the proconsul Servilius Calvus, and afterwards were recalled by an edict of his and remained in the province, I will write and tell you shortly as soon as I have ascertained from Calvus the reason for his recalling …