Resultados25 letters/passages
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 457 · score 0.02
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Faustus, greetings. 1. Your eloquence and your devotion alike maintain their accustomed standard, and for this reason we admire your speech all the more because you write so finely, and your affection because you write so willingly. For the present, however, with your permission first sought …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
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 0.02
To Aquilinus. I count it as a debt you owe me, most excellent of men — if you agree that the reasons for our friendship are as strong as the friendship itself. What I am claiming is an inheritance. I call as witnesses our grandfathers, Apollinaris and Rusticus, whose praiseworthy intimacy was forged by the similarity o …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius to his lord, Bishop Lupus [of Troyes]. Blessed be the Holy Spirit and the Father of God Almighty — for you, father of fathers, bishop of bishops, a second James [the Apostle] in our generation, from your watchtower of love, from a Jerusalem no less exalted, look down upon every member of God's Church with your …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 479 · score 0.02
Sidonius to his dear Turnus, greetings. 1. How fittingly the words of the Mantuan poet apply to your name and your situation: "Turnus, what no god would have dared to promise the hopeful, see -- the turning of days has brought unbidden." Your father Turpio, a man of tribunician rank, some time ago -- if you recall -- b …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
"Tell me what it says," he replied. When they spouted various verses at him as if in jest, Catullinus dissolved in laughter and, with untimely enthusiasm, began to exclaim that the poem was worthy of being immortalized in golden letters on a bronze tablet at the Rostra, or even on the Capitoline. 4. Paeonius exploded - …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Montius, greetings. 1. You ask me, most eloquent sir, as you set out for your Sequani [the region around Besancon], to send you a certain satire that I have supposedly written. I am amazed that you would make such a request, for it is not right to think ill so quickly of a friend's character. Was I …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Aper. Are you enjoying the hot springs at Baiae right now — the sulfur water belching out of rough pumice caverns, the healing pools for the consumptive and the liver-sick? Or are you perhaps up in the mountains, moving between hilltop fortresses and struggling to choose a refuge from among so many strongholds? What …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
7. But after two months or more, when certain travelers reported that the man, now departed (all too quickly even by our reckoning), was secretly carrying in sealed bundles the treasures of a sacred treasury, I sent swift horses in pursuit of the departing guest -- horses that could easily have devoured the distance of …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Forbidden by the weight of his cares from maintaining the measured routine of his former peace, he instantly abandoned the rules of his old way of life and realized that the business of an emperor and the leisure of a senator simply cannot coexist. Nor did the future disappoint his present gloom. For though he had sail …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to the Abbot Chariobaudus. You do a thing, my singular patron in Christ, that is in keeping with both your love and your way of life: you soften the cares of a friend in exile with letters of consolation. If only you would always remember me in this way — so that the anxieties that chain themselves together in …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
8. At this I marveled at the excessive pride of the one group and the excessive humility of the other, but refrained from asking the reasons. Then one of the factious crowd, planted for the purpose, came up to greet me. In the course of our conversation he said: "Do you see these people?" "I see them," I said, "and I w …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
You bring the banner of the cross you have long carried to those wretched men who, through their own folly, still sit weighed down by the burdens of the flesh, and you extend the hand of your words to those who are wounded in conscience. You know how, seasoned commander that you are, to gather the wounded from the oppo …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Like Tantalus, the terrified man dared not open his mouth, lest the food that entered it exit through a wound. After many tears and desperate prayers, he was barely released — and he fled that royal luxury and those regal delicacies with the same speed that men usually pursue them. He returned to the desires of ordinar …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Serranus. Your friend Marcellinus — a man of skill and a friend's friend — delivered your letter. After its opening greeting, the rest of its considerable length was devoted to praising your patron, the emperor Petronius Maximus [Roman emperor for barely two months in 455, before being lynched by a mob as the Vandal …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
13. She has been your attendant from your earliest years, your inseparable companion at your side, whether you trained in the urban arena or were worn down in remote solitudes, your partner in the academy and in the monastery alike; with you she renounces worldly disciplines, with you she proclaims the heavenly. Whoeve …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 479 · score 0.01
4. When we rose from table, I privately inquired of those standing by which of the three orders of life he had taken up -- whether he was living as a monk, a cleric, or a penitent. They said he had recently been bound, despite his protests, by the duty of the priesthood, which the partisan love of his fellow citizens h …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Turnus. How fitting for your name and your situation are those lines of the Mantuan poet [Virgil]: "Turnus, what no god would have dared promise to your prayers, the turning of the days has brought about of its own accord." Your father Turpio, a man of tribunician rank, borrowed money some time ago — if you remember …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
Or did you fear the raised eyebrow of a difficult and stern critic? What mortal possesses such arrogance, such swollen pride, as not to greet even your tepid works with the most fervent praise? 5. Or did you take care to disdain and neglect me because you looked down on a younger man? I can scarcely believe that. Or be …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
And the illustrious Gratianensis added: "A wide field for satirists is opened by this quarrel." At this the emperor turned his head toward me: "I hear, Count Sidonius, that you write satire." "And I, my lord," I replied, "hear the same thing." Then he said, but laughing: "Spare us at least." "But I," I said, "spare mys …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 480 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Domnulus, greetings. 1. I cannot delay sharing with you this great joy, for you are surely eager to learn what our father in Christ and bishop, Patiens, accomplished at Chalon-sur-Saone in the manner of his accustomed piety and constancy. When he had arrived at the aforementioned city, attended in …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
You love quiet; I love it so much I could tolerate idleness. You avoid barbarians because they are thought wicked; I avoid them even if they are good. You are diligent in your reading; I too refuse to let laziness do me much harm on that front. You fulfill the role of a devout man; I manage at least the appearance. You …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
And the emperor said: "I call God and the state to witness that I shall never again forbid you to write whatever you wish, since the charge brought against you can in no way be proved. At the same time, it is deeply unjust for the imperial judgment to lend its weight to private grudges, so that an innocent and carefree …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
You bind up their slick arguments in chains of categorical logic, in the manner of skilled physicians who, when reason requires, prepare even from the serpent a remedy against its poison. 16. But all this belongs in our time only to the contemplation of your conscience and the power of your learning. For who could foll …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
They told me he had recently and reluctantly been made a priest, the love of his fellow citizens having forcibly bound him to the office despite his protests. The next day, while the servants and clients were out hunting, I asked for a private conversation. He agreed. I embraced him, congratulated him first on his new …