Resultados8 letters/passages
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.02
Gregory to Syagrius, Bishop of Autun. Charity is the mistress of all good things. There is nothing harsh, nothing confused, nothing foreign in it. It so trains and strengthens the heart that nothing feels heavy or difficult -- everything becomes sweet. It fosters what is harmonious, preserves what is united, joins what …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 576 · score 0.02
The pleasant bank breathed back a fragrant air to the nose, the delights of incense satisfied them with abundant breath, one single pleasure cherishing both in the flowered seat, the region known for its goods fed the blessed in its Tempe. But when they shone with greater honor than so great, the whole earth marvelousl …
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.02
Gregory to Syagrius of Autun, Etherius of Lyon, Virgilius of Arles, and Desiderius of Vienne -- bishops of Gaul. Our Head, which is Christ, has willed us to be his members, so that through the bond of charity and faith he might make us one body in himself. We must hold fast to him in our hearts, because without him we …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 576 · score 0.02
To Syagrius, Bishop of Autun To my holy lord and most worthy of the apostolic see, lord Bishop Syagrius — Fortunatus sends greetings. I was sunk in the torpor of mindless idleness, my mind drunk with prolonged decay, growing stupid and brutish in lingering illness — suffused with the dulling heaviness of lazy sleep, dr …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 576 · score 0.02
What, then, would my meager resources bring forth as a gift? While I hesitated in choosing, there came to mind the saying of the lethargic Horace-Pindar: "Painters and poets have always had equal license to dare anything." Considering the verse — if each artist may blend what he will, why not, even if not by an artist, …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.02
Gregory to Desiderius, Bishop in Gaul. So many good things had been reported to us about your pursuits that great joy arose in my heart, and I could not bring myself to refuse what your Fraternity had requested. But then I received news I cannot even mention without shame: your Fraternity has been teaching grammar to c …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
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 …
venantius_fortunatus · c. 576 · score 0.01
Thus by the sign of his sighing the captive's mind made itself understood, and grief drew onto his face, as in a mirror, the anguish that was visible in his heart. Among the silent, the state of affairs became known; and since with me his weeping availed as much as speaking, affection spoke wonderfully without a tongue …