Resultados25 letters/passages
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
… hings pertaining to the public order, the bishops themselves recognize that the imperial governance has been conferred upon you by divine arrangement, and they obey your laws, lest they should seem to resist the order established for worldly affairs. With what affection, I ask, ought you to obey those who have been ass …
symmachus · c. 382 · score 0.02
… ause of justice itself — that's your chief concern — but I do dare ask that the imperial response come quickly, to give force to the rulings already made.
ennodius_pavia · c. 514 · score 0.02
… the fiscal advocacy [advocationem fisci — the lucrative and powerful office of imperial treasury agent for the region], they reveal, even before they have achieved their aim, precisely what they intend to do with it. For my part, I have not concealed from anyone what Your Greatness has resolved concerning the public g …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
It is fitting that we adorn our court with noble men, so that their wishes may be fulfilled and our retinue may be graced by the merits of distinguished persons. We therefore summon your greatness by this edict to our presence -- which we have no doubt is most welcome to you -- so that you, who have spent a long life i …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
[1] You can see from the very care we take how deep our love for you runs, since we appear so concerned for your welfare that we will not let any point of guidance be omitted. Vigilance reveals affection, and what we cherish most devotedly we guard with the greatest care. [2] This is why we have granted the illustrious …
ennodius_pavia · c. 517 · score 0.02
Worthy is the ruler, worthy are those in whose lifetime the sum of our desires has been attained — for even if the happiness that is destined to pass to posterity endures, those from whom it took its beginning must be honored with special praise. You have prayed to God so effectually that the valor of the one whose cle …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Even when the pleasures of country retreat and provincial leisure might have tempted you, crowds of litigants and the anxious hopes of the wronged came running to you. You took on the office of a good judge among them, as if by some premonition of the future -- performing through the assumption of merit what you could …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
The wisdom of antiquity rightly provided that those who serve the public interest should receive the just rewards of their labor, so that no one who deserved praise for honorable service should be overlooked. For to what office would compensation be paid, if the rewards for praetorian service were delayed? Nearly every …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
It seems an entirely honorable and necessary undertaking to petition a pious Emperor for the security of the Roman state, since it is fitting to seek from you what can benefit our liberty. For among all the blessings God has uniquely granted you, nothing is more glorious than the knowledge that you have the power to gi …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Provide protection pleasing to God for orphans and widows against cruel oppression -- but in such a way that, as sometimes happens through excessive compassion, in trying to help the wretched you do not override the law. And if something in the strict enforcement of law gives offense, counsel everyone so well that you …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
The only real punishment for the wicked is when they feel that public opinion is against their character. There can be no such thing as discipline when discipline itself needs correcting. Strive together with me to give the provincials good governance while removing their hardship. Let the discussion be about remedies, …
ennodius_pavia · c. 517 · score 0.01
In bishops he cultivates both innate virtues and inspires those not found. But why should I anticipate Your Blessedness with the prejudice of an extended speech? Your experience and that spiritual perfection will immediately accuse me of having been barren in the praises of your son, and whereas deeds are usually ampli …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Therefore, both these revenue streams, now converted to cash assessments, shall be administered by your diligence at the appointed installments — so that under my administration no one appears negligent who under other authorities served with praiseworthy integrity. For although I have taken care to assist other provin …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
You should gladly obey Roman custom, to which you have been restored after so long -- for the return is welcome to a place where your ancestors are known to have prospered. Therefore, recalled by God's grace to your ancient liberty, clothe yourselves in the manners of the toga. Cast off barbarism; throw away the cruelt …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
There can be no doubt about the loyalty of one chosen to guard a city, because what is entrusted for the security of many must be given to a man of proven conscience. Therefore, we grant you by our authority the care of such-and-such gate of such-and-such city, so that it neither lies open to the approach of the wicked …
ennodius_pavia · c. 512 · score 0.01
By the infusion of heavenly mystery it has been granted to me to hold free judgments, even though I am bound by favors. For it is a gift from above that one who is obligated may render an honest opinion and not take pleasure in the enormity of gratitude at the expense of rigorous judgment. It is divine when one to whom …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
[1] The utility of good men must be renewed through succession, so that no public business suffers harm from the loss of those who serve. We therefore order you by our authority to take up the post of the late Benedictus in the city of Pedona, managing everything with vigilant administration, so that you may earn the i …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
We give thanks to God, to whom the peace of kings is always welcome, that you have declared our accession most pleasing to your clemency. It is clear that you can love one whom you are glad to see reach the summit of kingship. This is how a man should be received who presumed to be elevated through your favor. Grant th …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Having thoroughly investigated all these and similar matters pertaining to the public good and the provincials, we wish you to act in all respects in a manner that cannot displease our clemency. Our foresight has further determined that once all facts are carefully and fairly ascertained by you, they shall be entered i …
ennodius_pavia · c. 514 · score 0.01
Your greatness is present to its own duties and asserts the splendor of blood by the testimony of purity. Pious hearts do not know how to desert love; a generous mind preserves religious diligence. Therefore I have received writings shining with a double light, since what the holy heart found, the serene hand has inscr …
ennodius_pavia · c. 511 · score 0.01
Without loss of guardianship those are orphaned whom it befalls to belong to you: paternal resources do not fail those whom you cherish. I speak of Lupicinus, the son of our Euprepia: to him the aforesaid generality pertains, concerning whose property the distinguished man, your admirer Count Tancila, told me that the …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
No shameful transaction will enter my court. No one will leave my presence poorer than when he arrived. My private quarters will not differ from my judicial bench — whoever observes me will find a judge, wherever he looks. Mindful of propriety and with God's help, I intend to govern exactly as I was instructed by our s …
ennodius_pavia · c. 509 · score 0.01
For a long time my soul has hung in uncertainty, whether I should knock at the door of your acquaintance with the lovable presumption of writing and enter by this path the breast of a most excellent person, or whether, content with a vague greeting through your people, I should break through the secrets that besieged m …
simplicius_pope · c. 482 · score 0.01
Therefore, finding opportunities, never cease to supplicate the will of the most merciful emperor on behalf of the Catholic faith, and to draw him back diligently from things harmful to Christian doctrine, and to inform him frequently according to what we command, and to press rather toward that side which is friendly …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
When we requested your presence, we were not planning to inflict the injury of harassment, but considering with deep thought what was truly in your interest — so that you should have done willingly what we knew would benefit you. [6] Return, then, to your former devotion. Let my cares, which I bear for the common good, …