Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 377 · score 0.02
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. 358 · score 0.02
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. 379 · score 0.02
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. 344 · score 0.02
To Κληματίῳ. (357) This young man comes to you bearing my letter as his strongest credential. He has studied rhetoric under my guidance and now puts his training to use in the courts. His talent is genuine, his character is sound, and his cause is just. I do not ask you to bend the law on his behalf -- only to ensure t …
libanius · c. 376 · score 0.02
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. 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 0.01
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. 356 · score 0.01
You left a sting in me that keeps my memory of you alive. Both Clematius and I wept all the way to the gates as you departed. Then his grief was eased by the thought that he would see you again soon, while mine was eased by knowing you traveled with good hopes. I know you will put our fears to rest -- but please, let s …
libanius · c. 321 · score 0.01
To Themistius. (359) Andronicus the poet [a contemporary poet praised by Libanius] won over the cities as far as Ethiopia, as one might expect of an Andronicus producing such honey. Though his grief for his mother and for the city prevented him from displaying all the treasures of his soul, still, what he was able to s …
libanius · c. 388 · score 0.01
To Celsus. (362) You should have been receiving such letters from others on such matters, but you fled the rank of teachers and entered that of governors. And yet you perform that role with such skill as we never could, even if someone led us there; and had you been here, you would have prevailed here too. So versatile …
libanius · c. 388 · score 0.01
… 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 grant a favor profitable to the other but harmful to himself. …
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. 341 · score 0.01
To the same person. (361) I imagine Caesarius, whose death has made Armenia a poorer place, was honored with your tears as well. I believe the city publicly went into mourning for the man -- an "upholder of the city," as Pindar would say. And this too is no small part of the misfortune: that his son, torn away from his …
libanius · c. 347 · score 0.01
Do not uproot him now; he will come when the time is better." Would you not have granted this if I had asked? You who would have given the favor then — will you not now reckon with the necessity? I believe so. And I confidently predict this too: that even in his absence, Honoratus will receive what those present enjoy …
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. 332 · score 0.01
You would understand his longing to go home -- a longing that has driven him many times to throw away the case and return, only to be stopped by us, out of pity, warning him how shameful it would be to let his enemies enjoy his property and, in Homer's words, how disgraceful if no action proves stronger than the passag …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.01
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. 351 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (355) I want my friends, whatever they say, to be seen as speaking the truth. And since I count you among the first of my friends, I work to keep you far from falsehood. It was out of concern for this, my good man, that I kept silent all this time. For if I had written immediately, you would have been a l …
libanius · c. 375 · score 0.01
… s, who has been struck so many blows by fortune, now hangs in suspense over the imperial couriers. You would see the same man now laughing, now weeping, his mood shifting with each new report that arrives. One remedy alone is stronger than these troubles: if you would appear and offer your usual philosophical counsel. …
libanius · c. 390 · score 0.01
To Maximus. (363 AD) Hyperechius claimed he made this journey on behalf of his brother, but it turned out he came more on your behalf than the one he mentioned. His concern for his brother was slight; what he was really doing was running around extinguishing a rumor that was flourishing — untrue, as I was convinced, th …
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 …
libanius · c. 315 · score 0.01
To Zenobius. (352 or 354?) I resolved to avenge your silence with silence of my own. Yet I knew the punishment would fall short of the offense. For it was not an equal thing for me to be deprived of your letters and for you to go without mine. The finer yours are, the greater the loss compared to the revenge. [To Thala …
libanius · c. 393 · score 0.01
To Entrechius. (363 AD) My dearest Julianus ought to be returning home for other reasons — to see his mother and to bring her the sweetest old age through her son's excellence. But instead he comes to shed tears at a tomb and to grieve doubly for the woman who bore him: that she is gone, and that she died as she did. A …
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. 380 · score 0.01
You know this young man, I think -- you were never unaware of those among my students who showed promise in oratory. He ought to have come to Cilicia under happier circumstances, but as it is, he has come to mourn his sister and honor the loss with his tears. So that he does not leave your province without meeting you, …