Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 338 · score 0.02
… lt, we will not forget who holds ultimate authority, nor that the power of such imperial letters depends on your own decision to enforce them or not.
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.02
We fear this may cost them their standing, and we ask you to preserve their status even in their absence. They say that your word is law to Musonius, and indeed it is an old law that the prefect decides such matters for those who hold the post that man now holds. Confirm, then, so fine a reputation through what I now r …
libanius · c. 327 · score 0.02
To Priscianus. (359/60) You asked me whether I expect you to master your responsibilities. I do. Next you wanted to know whether I predict your current performance will earn you a good reputation among the powerful. There are grounds for hope: what you are doing does not go unnoticed, and admiration follows every repor …
libanius · c. 381 · score 0.02
… the defendant look the prosecutor in the eye. Before, the sheer grandeur of the imperial office made me hesitate to write. Now the beauty of the emperor's own letters doubles my fear. For even if everything else is on our side, we lack the light that blazes in his writing. More than anyone I know, the man has blended p …
libanius · c. 390 · score 0.02
To the Emperor Julian. (363 AD) I was at first displeased with Alexander's administration, I confess. That the most disreputable among us should be his concern — things that previously were not the business of distinguished men — I considered an insult, not the work of a governor. I also thought the frequent monetary f …
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.02
… uly yours alone, sprung from no precedent. While others, the moment they attain imperial power, take on a love of money — some beginning to crave what they never desired before, others intensifying a passion already dwelling in them — you alone, upon entering into power, gave away your patrimony to your companions: a h …
libanius · c. 371 · score 0.01
To Emperor Julian. (~360 AD) I sent you the speech — a small thing about great matters. To make the speech greater, you are surely the master, if you grant what would make it so. By granting it, you will show that you consider me a craftsman of encomia. By not granting it, you will leave room for other suspicions.
libanius · c. 366 · score 0.01
"What great thing?" I asked. Strategius then said: "When he was about to take leave of the emperor, after many fine exchanges, he added: 'Your Majesty, no one's rank will shield them from punishment for wrongdoing. Whether it is a judge or a military commander who breaks the law, I will not tolerate neglect.'" He said …
libanius · c. 339 · score 0.01
To Olympius. (358) Your sons will receive every just treatment from us -- first, on the very ground of justice and the obligation so to act for anyone who is not wicked, and second...
libanius · c. 385 · score 0.01
To the Emperor Julian. (362 AD) If this is the product of a sluggish tongue, what would you be if you sharpened it? But in your mouth dwell springs of eloquence too powerful to need any tributary. We, on the other hand, if not watered daily, have no choice but silence. You seek to receive my speech without an advocate …
libanius · c. 329 · score 0.01
To Andronicus. (358-361) The soldiers serving under Modestus have done me many favors. In return for all of them, they ask only one -- one that I could grant through you. Consider whether it would look right for me to be willing to receive favors but unable to return them. The favor is this: do not be harsh to Leontius …
libanius · c. 355 · score 0.01
We are gaping in expectation -- not for Aeschylus [i.e., a theatrical production], but for your letters and those of our good emperor: his granting the release, and yours confirming that it was granted through your efforts. Know also that a second letter has arrived from there with the same orders, though it is unclear …
libanius · c. 361 · score 0.01
However much I condemned that journey, fatiguing as it was , I no less, or rather more, condemned myself for returning so soon instead of going to the place appointed and there indulging my eyes the next morning at sun-rising, with the sight of his divine visage. And so unfortunate is the city that she could not afford …
libanius · c. 366 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. What was expected has come to pass. Or to put it more accurately: everyone expected your current appointment, so thoroughly that what you hold now does not seem foreign to you but is exactly what belongs to you. A great shout went up from everyone -- calling blessed the people under your authority, praisi …
libanius · c. 361 · score 0.01
… w you have paid me back the great wages -- by appearing so fine and good at the imperial court. Those earlier rewards were not small -- the gold and silver with which you surpassed the rest -- but in what you are doing now, by Heracles, you have shown what a fine son I raised. For you have moved everyone to praise your …
libanius · c. 381 · score 0.01
The governor took part in your festival in the same way I did -- he missed nothing I had heard. When he learned about the armor, the sacrifices, the expense, and the splendor that ran through everything, he was so delighted -- rejoicing with both the priest and the city -- that he said the emperor himself would hear of …
libanius · c. 352 · score 0.01
To Rhetorios. (355 AD) We are faring as you would pray — and as some people here would not. But your pleasure would be greater if you were present to see it than absent and merely hearing of it. So why not reap the greater joy? Why not come here while we are here — something you often did when we were not? You think yo …
libanius · c. 320 · score 0.01
To Olympius. (359/360) I feel a mixture of joy and its opposite. That Priscianus's fortunes are advancing is a festival for me. But being separated from the man who, in his devotion to my interests, imitates my own uncle -- that is no light matter. But it was only fitting that not only the best of doctors but also the …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
Many blessing attend you for showing that when I celebrated your talents I was not a liar, or rather for having shown that I was a liar in promising nothing equal to what you have performed! This is all your own, and copied from no model. For though some, together with the empire, have assumed the love of money, contra …
libanius · c. 388 · score 0.01
To the same. (362/63) If I called you a pupil of the excellent Modestus, I would shame neither of you. You would seem to follow the best of men, and he to have produced a noble imitator. This pleases me, but far more pleasing is that the emperor is adorned by the nature of those he has chosen. Many tried to persuade hi …
libanius · c. 335 · score 0.01
To Andronicus. (360?) Antiochus serves the whole city through his medical practice, but the greatest share of his labors is spent on my family. Bassiane -- whose very name, I know, commands your respect -- clings to his hands as though to a sacred anchor. I mention this so you understand what kind of people, and how ma …
libanius · c. 367 · score 0.01
… are the man who saved Greece [by his administration] and who has now opened the imperial palace to the art of rhetoric. And I myself, if not among those who produce fine speeches, am at least among those who love fine speeches. So it is likely I will find you gracious -- both toward this letter and toward the man who c …
libanius · c. 324 · score 0.01
The son of Boethus -- also named Boethus -- manages my affairs, and his father, through our willingness to help however we can, has always been well served by us. I'd be ashamed if the father were more useful to my household than I was to his, even if another person were to help the old man on my account. Now this youn …
libanius · c. 339 · score 0.01
To Andronicus. (361) I was glad that Hermeias and his family, having obtained justice, both praise you themselves and lead the rhetors, who at that time wrote on their behalf, to even greater...
libanius · c. 389 · score 0.01
To Gaianus. (362/63) For I too am your possession — so it is no wonder that you are mine as well. But I am no longer persuaded that your skill in governing came from us. You brought it with you from Phoenicia, and that is why, while serving as assessor to another, you prevailed by your character more powerfully than an …