Resultados25 letters/passages
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius To His Dear Ecdicius, greetings. Duo nunc pariter mala sustinent Arverni tui. 'quaenam?' inquis. praesentiam Seronati et absentiam tuam. Seronati, inquam: de cuius ut primum etiam nomine loquar, sic mihi videtur quasi praescia futurorum lusisse fortuna, sicuti ex adverso maiores nostri proelia, quibus nihil es …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
To the Lord Bishop Censorius. The bearer of this letter is honored by the office of deacon. He fled with his family from the storm of Gothic raids and was carried to your territory, driven, as it were, by the very weight of his flight. On church land overseen by Your Holiness, this hungry newcomer sowed a small crop in …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
To Pannychius. You know that Seronatus [a corrupt Roman official who collaborated with the Visigoths] is returning to Toulouse — or if you do not know yet (and I believe you do not), learn it from these signs. Already Euanthius is hurrying ahead to Clausetia, assembling work-crews to clear whatever autumn leaves may ha …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius to his lord, Bishop Lupus. Beyond the duty that is owed without end to your incomparably eminent apostolate — though it can never be fully discharged, no matter how constantly one pays it — I commend to you the longstanding need of these petitioners, who carry a new urgency. They have traveled a long way to th …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
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 0.02
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
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
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 friend Leo. I have sent you the Life of Apollonius of Tyana [the famous 1st-century Pythagorean philosopher and wonder-worker] — not as Nicomachus the elder transcribed it from Philostratus's text, but as Tascius Victorianus copied it from Nicomachus's draft. Since you ordered it, I sent it, but in my h …
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 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 the Lord Bishop Graecus [Bishop of Marseille]. I envy the good fortune of our regular courier, who has the chance to see you so often. But what am I saying about Amantius? I even envy my own letters, which will be opened by your sacred fingers and read by your blessed eyes. Here I sit, penned within the half-burned …
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 …
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 The Lord Pope Graecus, greetings. Oneras, consummatissime pontificum, verecundiam meam, multifaria laude cumulando if quid stilo rusticante peraravero. atque would that reatu careat, quod apicum primore congressu quamquam circumscriptus, veritati resultantia tamen et diversa conexui; ignorantiae indeed meae …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Set aside for a little while those widely acclaimed speeches you compose in the voice of the king [Euric, King of the Visigoths], by which that illustrious ruler now strikes terror into the hearts of peoples beyond the sea, now seals a victor's treaty on favorable terms with the trembling barbarians along the Waal [riv …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius To His Dear Philimatius, greetings. I nunc, et legibus me ambitus interrogatum senatu move, cur adipiscendae dignitati hereditariae curis pervigilibus incumbam; cui pater socer, avus proavus praefecturis urbanis praetorianisque, magisteriis Palatinis militaribusque micuerunt. et ecce Gaudentius meus, hactenus …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Aquilinus. I count it as a debt you owe me, most excellent of men — if you agree that the reasons for our friendship are as strong as the friendship itself. What I am claiming is an inheritance. I call as witnesses our grandfathers, Apollinaris and Rusticus, whose praiseworthy intimacy was forged by the similarity o …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Domitius, greetings. 1. You complain that I am in the country, when it is rather I who have cause to complain that you are now detained in the city. Already spring is yielding to summer, and the sun, raised to its highest lines, stretches on a wandering ray toward the Scythian pole. What shall I sa …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Books were everywhere in abundance — you could have imagined yourself among the shelves of a school, the tiers of an Athenaeum, or a bookseller's well-stocked stall. The volumes near the ladies' chairs were religious works; those by the gentlemen's couches were distinguished by the grand style of Latin eloquence. Thoug …