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sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
But if verses devoid of ease and happiness cannot win approval, you too will find nothing pleasing on the page I append below. [The poem that follows describes the barbarian peoples gathered at the court of Euric in Bordeaux:] Why do you try to rouse the Muses now, Lampridius, glory of our poetry, and force me to compo …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
To the Lord Bishop Graecus [Bishop of Marseille]. Here once again our Amantius — that gossipmonger of ours — returns to his Marseille, doubtless planning to bring home some profit from the city's markets, if only a favorable cargo-ship should arrive. Through him I would chatter at length in a lighter vein, if my heart …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius to his dear Namatius, greetings. 1. The dictator Julius Caesar, who they say administered military affairs with greater generalship than any other, was claimed in turn by the rival pursuits of writing and reading. And though in the person of this one man the military and oratorical sciences competed for primac …
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
For the sake of the hope of this glorious peace, we tore herbs from the cracks in the city walls for food, often poisoned by unfamiliar plants whose undistinguished leaves and green juices were gathered by hands as pale as famine itself. And for all these proofs of devotion, we are told that our people have been sacrif …
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 0.01
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
God willing, such prayers will be blessed with favorable outcomes, and there will yet be time to remember these terrors amid the pleasures of peace — but the present dangers make us cautious, even if the future will make us secure. In the meantime, the bearer of this letter sighs over certain losses he claims were infl …
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
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 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
To Apollinaris [a kinsman]. Through Bishop Faustinus — a man bound to me by the fellowship of our old comradeship no less than by our shared profession — I had sent you certain warnings by word of mouth. I am glad you obeyed. For it is deeply ingrained in prudent minds to guard against the unexpected, just as it would …
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 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 Elaphius. Prepare a lavish feast and beds for a great many guests: people are coming to you by many roads and in large crowds — as befits a gathering of good people. The date of the upcoming dedication has become known to everyone. The baptistery you have been building for so long is, you write, finally ready for co …