Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.02
To Anatolius. (361 AD) What outrages have been committed — not on the Danube near the Scythians, nor at the ends of Libya, but in Phoenicia, the most civilized region of all, where laws exist, governors are in charge, and an emperor lives under arms to keep all violence at bay. A certain Lucianus, a man holding some mi …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.02
To Eusebius. (361 AD) Who could blame a man for fleeing fire? The rivalry here is no different from fire. Whether nature drives them or circumstances compel them, shame has departed, no one feels embarrassment, they bite one another, and they heap envy upon me. My brother is not free from the evils surrounding these ma …
libanius · c. 331 · score 0.02
To Ambrosius, Quaestor. (360) We were not ourselves when you were visiting. That terrible time [under Emperor Constantius II's restrictions on pagan practice] was driving us to distraction -- stripping away the greatest, finest, most precious things, some already gone, with the same threat hanging over the rest. Nor ar …
libanius · c. 334 · score 0.02
To Eusebius. (360) Let the wild beasts be preserved, let no one slaughter them, let someone provide the spectacle without that, and let the master not be lord of his own property. Such is the letter that has come from the prefect. And we, who used to admire the man for his other qualities, are astonished at this novelt …
libanius · c. 318 · score 0.02
To Modestus. (358/359) I delight in this kind of slander. And if, after receiving still more letters, you again claim to have received none, I will delight in it even more. For your dishonesty is the dishonesty of a lover who denies having received what he has, out of sheer desire to receive more. Just as, if you had r …
libanius · c. 372 · score 0.02
To Demetrius. (361 AD) Ascholius brought us news both most terrible and most heartening: having spoken of the fall — at which he himself was struck and fell — he immediately added that the gods caught the girl with their hand as she plunged and set her gently on the ground, as if into a bed. Just as I rejoiced that she …
libanius · c. 343 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (355) Hyperechius will see Seleucia in the finest way possible, having the best of men to look upon there. But we, it seems, have become slaves to...
libanius · c. 342 · score 0.01
To Pappus. (361?) When I asked for one, you sent two. What is the meaning of this? Were you deceived by the boy into thinking I needed two, or did you want to teach your son to give more than what is asked?
libanius · c. 375 · score 0.01
To Fortunatianus. (361) We are truly in a desert with you gone — or rather, in something worse than a desert. For those in a desert associate with neither worse nor better people, but we go searching for the one we should have and keep running into those we would profit from avoiding. The one man who was our sole conso …
libanius · c. 385 · score 0.01
To Sopater. (~362 AD) I owe this Sopater a debt from an old kindness. Once, traveling from Athens toward Thrace, I was caught in a heavy downpour and took shelter at Plataea in a wretched little building — into which this very man had also fled from the same storm. At first we talked about the violent rain and what it …
libanius · c. 330 · score 0.01
To Eusebius and Faustus. (360) If we did not trust you completely, we would not have sent a servant and a ship to Sinope. We are well aware that you are the city -- that if you lend your support, everything runs before a fair wind, and if you oppose... but I will write nothing ominous in a letter. Noble friends, now is …
libanius · c. 373 · score 0.01
To Eudaemon. (361 AD) The man who brought me your letter but brought you accusations against me instead of a letter from me was, I suspect, a poor messenger. He did not act on the judgment of someone who wanted to receive a letter, but on the mere appearance of wanting one. So do not trust him in his accusations; let t …
libanius · c. 325 · score 0.01
When I first heard you'd gone all the way to the Danube itself, where the emperor displayed his arms and humbled the pride of the Scythians [barbarian tribes beyond the frontier], I didn't write -- there was no one to carry a letter there. Then we heard simultaneously that you'd returned to the great city [Constantinop …
libanius · c. 340 · score 0.01
To Dianius. (358) Even before the letter-bearer arrived, word had reached us of the honor you enjoy from a man who himself deserves every honor and praise. And from the man who delivered the letter I could hear things that matched and even surpassed what others had reported. I reflected, then, that the gods are present …
libanius · c. 330 · score 0.01
To Themistius. (360) The sons of Lollianus are setting sail -- a trading voyage to Sinope [a port on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor]. Help them when they put in at your harbor. Write on their behalf to your friends in Sinope. If they are selling the family house, oversee everything, and make sure neither they cheat …
libanius · c. 373 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (361 AD) Hear what the bearer of this letter says: he accuses the negligent servants and asks you to correct what has gone wrong. A malicious spirit has seized this business and begrudges the young man his success. But, my good man, as the verse says, yield not to difficulty, not even before a god — in Zeu …
libanius · c. 355 · score 0.01
To Mantitheos. (355 AD) From the letter you sent us some time ago, we expected you to come in person. So it was a surprise to receive a letter from Europe instead. When I got your letter, I saw no reason to delay. I went straight to the man you wanted, deployed every compliment I had on your behalf, and urged him to se …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.01
She fought back, and her character made her display strength beyond her nature. At this point Lucianus drew a sword — O gods! She welcomed only this: that she might die before any disgrace. When he realized she was ready to give up her very life, he called slaves and ordered them to bring ropes. She was bound on a bed …
libanius · c. 317 · score 0.01
[Fragment] (362?) ...since during your governorship you were a Rhadamanthys [legendary judge of the underworld, proverbial for strict justice] to the Galatians, and even after leaving office you still care for them. That is why those who travel here stay with you, and you do good for them in every way you can. If it we …
libanius · c. 318 · score 0.01
To the same person. (359) I am a witness to Marcianus's misfortunes. Having traveled safely through most of the world, he was injured in the leg right at the gates of his own city, so badly that some doctors gave up and fled, while those who dared to touch it still cannot speak with confidence. What pains him more than …
libanius · c. 370 · score 0.01
To Alcimus. (357 AD) As long as you are alive and watching over Bithynia, the province can triumph through its men — for no one else could produce another Alcimus. Your letter about the bears made a festival for our city. People hearing such marvels could not disbelieve them when you were the source, and they felt almo …
libanius · c. 359 · score 0.01
To Andronicus. (356 AD) What have you done, Andronicus? I wrote to you; you showed the letter to others; they carried it to people here — and you became the cause of a war against me. Then, having committed such a blunder, instead of begging forgiveness you reproach me, and perhaps call me wicked for writing to you by …
libanius · c. 342 · score 0.01
To Apolinarius and Gemellus. (361?) Even now I consider you to be doing nothing other than learning -- and learning the greatest thing among men: how to govern. For this teaches...
libanius · c. 376 · score 0.01
To Fortunatianus. (361 AD) "Now let Earth know this, and the broad sky above" — and I will add, if you like, the Styx and all the other gods — that that letter of mine arrived at the proper time and nothing was done by design. It is perhaps not right for you to spare your household servants at the expense of your frien …
libanius · c. 315 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (353) Dionysius did not trample on his oath -- he is returning to you with the letters, just as he swore he would do. But when you call our city "blessed" -- you who were too afraid to live here -- you are having us on. If you truly thought her so fortunate, why did you refuse to share in that good fortu …