Resultados9 letters/passages
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
Variae, Appendix, Letter 8 — Pope Gelasius I to the Bishop of Nola Felix and Petrus, clergy of the church of Nola, have rebelliously and in violation of established order rushed to the court of my son the king, claiming that violence had been done to them — their clerical office having been passed over in silence — and …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius to Ereleua. [Pope Gelasius I (r. 492-496) writes to Ereleua, the mother of King Theodoric the Great. This letter, preserved among the Variae, concerns clerics who have violated Church jurisdiction by seeking recourse in secular courts.] I am astonished that Felix and Petrus, clerics of the church of Nola, …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
King Theodoric to Antonius, Venerable Bishop of Pola [modern Pula, on the coast of Istria]. A complaint against a man who ought to be treated with reverence is inherently troubling, since when silence is not maintained toward such persons, something serious is believed to have occurred. Stephanus has come before us wit …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
You will recall with me, most faithful men, that when the holy Agapitus, Pope of Rome, was being sent on a royal embassy to the Emperor of the East, he received from you — with pledges given and a formal receipt properly executed — a certain number of pounds of gold. The provident sovereign ordered it, and the urgency …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
We owe all the more to God the greater the gifts we receive beyond other mortals. What can a ruler return to God that is proportionate to the gift of empire? Yet even if our repayment can never match the gift, it pleases us to show our gratitude through reverence for the divine religion. This is why we consider it our …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
We grant our benefits to your grace especially if we find you administering your duties with good judgment. You will not go unrewarded if you receive foreign peoples wisely and manage the commerce of our own people with balanced fairness. Although prudence is needed everywhere, it is particularly suited to this role, s …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
If ancient emperors strove to devise laws so that their subjects might enjoy delightful peace, it is far nobler to decree measures that accord with sacred rules. Let the damaging profits of our age be banished. The only thing we can truly call gain is what divine judgment does not punish. Recently, a defender of the Ro …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
It is an endorsement of one's merits to be chosen after a corrupt predecessor has been removed, since the excesses of those who came before are only corrected when an excellent successor is found. Medicine often works through opposites: when vital heat is applied, the pestilent cold retreats. Clouds themselves are swep …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
It is a welcome thing to publicize what will benefit everyone, so that what might have been a private wish becomes a universal joy. Concealing benefits, on the other hand, is itself a kind of injury. Some time ago, the most distinguished Senate -- wishing to remove the stain of a most shameful suspicion from its own sp …