Resultados24 letters/passages
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. 334 · score 0.02
To Ammianus. (360?) In asking you for a favor I do nothing new, and you will be true to form if you grant it -- for I have asked many times, and you have given. Calliopius has a case: the man is a member of the city council, devoted to his duties, a friend of justice. I ask you to see that his rights are not trampled b …
libanius · c. 328 · score 0.02
To Priscianus. (359/60) So you will not collect taxes twice, yet you keep asking for letters on matters about which you already have correspondence. Miccalus already carried a letter about the poverty here and there. But that is not enough for you. Your wife's brother, who is dearest to me, burst in yesterday where I w …
libanius · c. 326 · score 0.02
I have many reasons to respect Mocimus: he's been a friend since childhood, he never shrank from any task my uncle assigned, and now he labors for us just as he did for him. A relative of his -- Maras by name -- is among your staff. His job is speed-writing, and his hand has made him a man of some standing. I'd like th …
libanius · c. 373 · score 0.02
To Priscianus. (361) You know Maeonius the copyist. And you know that I cannot afford to neglect copyists. The man bearing this letter is unknown to me, but Maeonius values him highly. Some scoundrel did him harm and then fled. Now this man has come seeking justice. So in your zeal on his behalf — which is also a servi …
libanius · c. 336 · score 0.02
To Priscianus. (360?) I know. "Why do you tell me what I already know?" [a Homeric quotation]. Do not imagine you know your own achievements better than we do, who hear about them. For there are those who report, and we are those who inquire. While others have already asked whether the burden of office is crushing you, …
libanius · c. 373 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (361 AD) While others asked those arriving from there all manner of questions — "What of the Arcadians? What of the Amphictyonians? Where has Philip gone?" — I, who always have your affairs at heart, had only one thing I wanted to know: whether the magnitude of the moment put your virtue to the test. Whi …
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. 341 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (361?) Leontius is still carrying letters on the same subject. I told him he ought to be sacrificing in celebration of victory. They say he has received no small concessions, but apparently the whole amount was owed. Praise him for what he already has cause to be grateful for, and then make sure he has r …
libanius · c. 330 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (359/60) You know Gaudentius, that excellent teacher. A farmer has come to him for refuge, he has come to me, and I now come to you. Surely what you do every day you will do now as well: put a stop to injustice. The man who needs help is named Antonius; he farms near Cyrrhus. The one wronging him -- if i …
libanius · c. 336 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (360?) You received Maran kindly -- that is one favor I have already collected. Now he has returned after a long absence. If you do not punish him for the debt he owes, that will be a second favor. So grant a third as well, since the Graces are three [the three Charites of Greek religion]. And what is my …
libanius · c. 342 · score 0.01
To Euphemius. (361?) I was glad for my companions who set out to visit you. For even if the time for speaking has not yet come, they can at least listen. And I call the right time not the...
libanius · c. 316 · score 0.01
This is your excuse for neglecting your friends. If anyone brings that charge, you set this against it instead of blame. Do you think I too know how to shoot arrows, or am I only fit to be shot at? Indeed, if you have wounded me, you have been wounded in return. If your barbs were in jest, mine are not in earnest eithe …
libanius · c. 316 · score 0.01
You would have been a better man if you had taken nothing from anyone, since the glory that poverty brings is more brilliant than the pillars the emperor bestows. Then too, that harsh and ungracious comment of yours, attacking Severus for seeking an official post when he ought to have been philosophizing. If he had tak …
libanius · c. 316 · score 0.01
Both of us then lack discrimination, but mine at least has some humanity in it. Indeed, there is no one I have praised by attributing what does not exist -- like the fable that decked the jackdaw in borrowed feathers. Listen to the rule I follow in praise. If someone is superior to money but inferior to pleasures, the …
libanius · c. 333 · score 0.01
To Polychronius. (360) You know Hilarius's eloquence and are well aware of his poverty. You know his friendship with us and that, though he has suffered much while doing no wrong, he has been driven from his own home. By what sort of people -- it is not even safe for me to say, for they are powerful. The income from ad …
libanius · c. 339 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (361) The son of the man bringing this letter is a student of mine. I look after the one as I should a pupil, and the other as the father of a pupil -- giving the son whatever eloquence I possess, and the father your goodwill. He also has a brother, whom I have not yet met, but as the brother of my stude …
libanius · c. 338 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (360/361?) Lucianus, a man not blessed in everything, did not dare to approach me himself -- so thoroughly did he condemn what he had been led to do. Instead, he sent the man who is dearest to both you and me, and whom I would be ashamed to refuse: Pancratius, who knows how to govern, how to speak, and w …
libanius · c. 316 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (357 or 358/59) I read that long letter of yours aloud to my friends -- you commanded it, and one does not disobey such authority. The reading provoked as much laughter as you intended -- and you intended a great deal. When I stopped, one of the listeners asked me whether I was your friend or your enemy. …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (361) Even if your office and the demands pulling you from every direction have driven Plato from your hands, Plato still dwells in your soul — which is why you bring us such fine stories and speeches. But look: you and Mikkalos have become one again, Hephaestus having wrought this upon you. And a crowd …
libanius · c. 327 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (359/60) Miccalus comes to you from Olympius, from home to home -- and from one brother to another, in every real sense. That is why he seems to me to have looked past the wealth available in Paeonia and the luxuries that come with injustice, believing that being in your company will be sweeter to him th …
libanius · c. 328 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (359/60?) Theodotus and Charisius are brothers, and their profession is the same. I will add that their principles are the same too: they draft legal documents for people without valuing profit over truth. You have known and loved Theodotus, who has been with us for a long time. As for Charisius, who liv …
libanius · c. 330 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (360) That you, surrounded by so many responsibilities and pricked by anxieties about the war, still take thought for how we might gain a new student -- and refuse to accept that any amount of business could excuse you from looking after my interests -- what example from the poets' celebrated friendships …
libanius · c. 330 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (360) Now you are truly absent from us, since you have taken away the man who imitated you. Many praise your qualities, but only the admirable Palladius does more than admire them -- he practices them. So you have not really vacated the advocate's chair, not while his speeches are on display. He takes yo …