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sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
To Syagrius [a young Gallo-Roman aristocrat, great-grandson of a consul, living among the Burgundians]. You are the great-grandson of a consul — and through the male line, though that matters less to my present point. You are descended from a poet [Syagrius's ancestor, the consul, was also a literary man] whose statues …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Basilius, greetings. 1. By God's gift and the new example of our times, we have the old rights of friendship, and it is long since we have loved one another equally. Moreover, as regards our shared conscience, you are my patron -- though I speak presumptuously and arrogantly in saying even t …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
This is the character that favorable report has brought us. Send word quickly if the reports match reality, so that those on perpetual guard duty — whom neither snowy days nor moonless, stormy nights persuade to sound the retreat from the walls — may catch their breath. For even when the barbarian withdraws to winter q …
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
To Domnitius. You who love the sight of arms and armed men — what pleasure you would have felt if you had seen young Prince Sigismer [a Burgundian royal], dressed in the full splendor of his people's fashion, making his way to his father-in-law's palace as a suitor and bridegroom! Horses decked in jeweled trappings wen …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Thaumastus [brother of Apollinaris, a kinsman of Sidonius]. We have finally tracked down the men who have been slandering your brother's friendships at the court of our tetrarch [the Burgundian king Chilperic] — and equally those of the new emperor's faction — if indeed the careful detective work of our friends has …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
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
To Euodius [a Gallo-Roman courtier at the Visigothic court]. When the letter-carrier delivered your letter — he confirmed to certain friends that you were about to depart for Toulouse on the king's orders — I too was leaving town for a distant country estate. It was the chance of receiving your letter that, early that …
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
To Trygetius [a wealthy Gallo-Roman landowner near Bazas]. Has the city of Bazas — set on dust, not turf — has that Syrtic soil with its shifting, wind-blown sands claimed you so thoroughly that neither public office, nor friendship, nor oysters fattened in their beds can draw you the short distance to Bordeaux? Or doe …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Faustus, greetings. 1. Both your eloquence and your devotion hold to their accustomed standard, and for this reason I admire your speech because you write so well, and your affection because you write so willingly. But for the present, with your permission first sought and then obtained, I j …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Candidianus, greetings. 1. You congratulate me on being in Rome -- but with a touch of wit and some salt mixed in with the teasing. You say you are glad that at last your friend is seeing the sun, which I, as a drinker of Saone water, have presumably rarely glimpsed. So you reproach me with the fog …
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
Drunk on new wealth — and here you see their character even in small things — their very extravagance in spending betrays their inexperience in possessing. They cheerfully appear armed at dinner parties, in white at funerals, in furs at church, in black at weddings, and in beaver-skin cloaks at religious processions. N …
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
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
I pass over the way you have reduced only the number of heretics while increasing everything else in the state of the faith — trapping the savage minds of the Photinians [an Arian-like heresy] in the nets of your spiritual preaching, so that the barbarians who follow you, whenever they are refuted by your word, will no …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Eutropius, greetings. 1. When I learned that the treaty-breaking nation had returned to their own territory and was preparing no ambush for travelers, I thought it sinful to delay any further the exchange of courtesies between us, lest your affection should acquire, through my neglect, a kin …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Heronius, greetings. 1. After the wedding of the patrician Ricimer -- that is, after the resources of both empires had been squandered on the celebration -- serious public business was at last resumed, opening the door and field for the conduct of affairs. Meanwhile I was graciously received in the …
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
To Ferreolus [a former praetorian prefect of Gaul, now retired]. If I had considered the age, order, and standing of our friendship and kinship rather than your present circumstances, my pen would rightly have dedicated the first headings and the first greetings of this work to you. It would have traced your ancestral …
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 dear Eutropius, greetings. 1. I have long wanted to write to you, but now I am especially impelled to do so, since I am traveling to the city with Christ's blessing. My chief or sole reason for writing is to summon you from the depths of your domestic tranquility to take up the duties of the Palatine se …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To my dear Papianilla [Sidonius's wife]. The quaestor Licinianus, arriving from Ravenna, the moment he crossed the Alps and touched Gallic soil, sent a letter ahead announcing his coming. In it he reports that he carries imperial letters patent granting the patriciate to your brother Ecdicius as well — whose honors bri …