Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 318 · score 0.02
To Modestus. (359) I hear that the danger has reached its peak -- that bridges have been built for the Persian [Shapur II] and the crossing is imminent. Let this sharpen your vigilance, but keep panic far from your planning. For panic itself will destroy your ability to plan, since a troubled mind inevitably becomes bl …
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. 374 · score 0.02
To Agroicius and Eusebius. (361 AD) If this is how things stand, then necessity is stronger even than the gods, as the saying of the wise goes. For my part, considering both your hardships there and how affairs here are going worse for you — those who would have helped being absent — I was disheartened and thought you …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.02
To Eusebius. (361 AD) Who could blame a man for fleeing fire? The rivalry here is no different from fire. Whether nature drives them or circumstances compel them, shame has departed, no one feels embarrassment, they bite one another, and they heap envy upon me. My brother is not free from the evils surrounding these ma …
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. 360 · score 0.02
To Barbation. (356 AD) I wrote to you at the start of winter. Clematius was the one who took the letter — a man who spent the entire summer here and passed all his time singing your praises. Not that he was teaching us anything we didn't already know, unless the Cretan needs lessons about the sea. But there was somethi …
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. 334 · score 0.01
To Eusebius. (360) Let the wild beasts be preserved, let no one slaughter them, let someone provide the spectacle without that, and let the master not be lord of his own property. Such is the letter that has come from the prefect. And we, who used to admire the man for his other qualities, are astonished at this novelt …
libanius · c. 385 · score 0.01
To Hierius. (362 AD) Mine was a desire not entirely unreasonable; yours was the wiser counsel. "What the old man pursues," as the verse says, "he will consider so that nothing goes wrong." You will perhaps be annoyed if I call you old — as though I myself were still growing my first beard! I admit I am old — even if I …
libanius · c. 391 · score 0.01
To Acacius. (363 AD) That famous and great city, where you both distinguished yourself and were honored, has been shaken by many evils — battling famine and thought by the emperor to be criminal. We spent our time as supplicants but could not escape the accusation. You, it seems, were fortunate: you enjoyed the city's …
libanius · c. 371 · score 0.01
To Bacchius. (~357 AD) You don't know it, but we've composed another exercise — and you would certainly have asked for the second after the first. That's just how you are with me: the moment you hear I've said something, you're in love with it before you've even learned how I said it. So I'll send both at once, as if y …
libanius · c. 373 · score 0.01
To Demetrius. (361 AD) Harvest season is already upon us here, and it is autumn. Let us give the farmers their freedom, if you agree. Your advice about the fields I welcome and accept. We'll try both to hold onto what we have and to acquire more.
libanius · c. 318 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (358/359) I delight in this kind of slander. And if, after receiving still more letters, you again claim to have received none, I will delight in it even more. For your dishonesty is the dishonesty of a lover who denies having received what he has, out of sheer desire to receive more. Just as, if you had r …
libanius · c. 350 · score 0.01
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. 373 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (361 AD) While others asked those arriving from there all manner of questions — "What of the Arcadians? What of the Amphictyonians? Where has Philip gone?" — I, who always have your affairs at heart, had only one thing I wanted to know: whether the magnitude of the moment put your virtue to the test. Whi …
libanius · c. 327 · score 0.01
To the same person. (359/60) I am inclined to believe that your affairs are not too pressing, since you seem to have plenty of leisure for letter-writing. The beauty of your letter, at any rate, is that of a man composing literature, not a governor touring his cities. But if that is wrong and you are in fact overwhelme …
libanius · c. 343 · score 0.01
To Themistius. (361?) You used to chafe at your education, thinking you were wasting your effort on a useless pursuit. But it turns out you were going to need those weapons after all...
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.01
To Italicianus. (361) The profit is yours, if you are seen to benefit the household of Bassiana, a woman who deserves every fine word I can say about her. See to it, then, that you seize the opportunity and prove more generous to Rufinus than he himself would ask. He has come to inspect their land in Asia and to set ri …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
To Gorgonius. (355/56) The moment has come for you to do a service to all of Hellenism. Himerius makes his living by teaching, his place of instruction is Athens, and his estates are in Armenia. The man deserves the highest honor but receives not even a small one — certain Lycurguses have attacked and are driving out D …
libanius · c. 337 · score 0.01
To Caesarius. (358/359) Your letter has imitated the Spartans. They too arrived at Marathon after the battle was over, though they had resolved to help [a famous story from Herodotus]. Just so, your letter urges me to look after your sons -- young men who already have enough standing here to provide that kind of servic …
libanius · c. 372 · score 0.01
To Demetrius. (361 AD) Ascholius brought us news both most terrible and most heartening: having spoken of the fall — at which he himself was struck and fell — he immediately added that the gods caught the girl with their hand as she plunged and set her gently on the ground, as if into a bed. Just as I rejoiced that she …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
To Acacius. (358/59) I too am one of those overwhelmed by that great wave. Aristaenetus is dead -- O Zeus -- and the second blow has all but destroyed me, since the divine power did not even spare the head of Hierocles. Because of all this, I have fallen silent and will remain so, at least in public gatherings. But tho …
libanius · c. 343 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (355) Hyperechius will see Seleucia in the finest way possible, having the best of men to look upon there. But we, it seems, have become slaves to...
libanius · c. 370 · score 0.01
To Sabinos. (359?) Your difficulties have been resolved — resolved by the labors of Mariades. I received your letter when the troubles had already ended, so I asked: "How then should I help?" He replied that no help was needed, and that this was a time for rejoicing. So I rejoiced, and I wrote.
libanius · c. 386 · score 0.01
To Diophantus. (362 AD) What you asked for has been accomplished. Use your own judgment and your grandfather's money in your grandfather's city. This was carried out while many people scrambled to claim the service, each wanting the deed credited to himself. As a result, even I learned it was finished before I could co …