Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 318 · score 0.02
To Modestus. (359) I hear that the danger has reached its peak -- that bridges have been built for the Persian [Shapur II] and the crossing is imminent. Let this sharpen your vigilance, but keep panic far from your planning. For panic itself will destroy your ability to plan, since a troubled mind inevitably becomes bl …
libanius · c. 360 · score 0.02
To Barbation. (356 AD) I wrote to you at the start of winter. Clematius was the one who took the letter — a man who spent the entire summer here and passed all his time singing your praises. Not that he was teaching us anything we didn't already know, unless the Cretan needs lessons about the sea. But there was somethi …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.02
Another earthquake, which was also felt at Constantinople and Nice, swallowed up the remains of Nicomedia on January 1, 363. Homer, Odyssey 24.60 Iliad 16.459. A philosopher to whom Julian addressed his 57th letter. Libanius also wrote several letters to him and mentions him in several others. I have been unable to loc …
libanius · c. 316 · score 0.02
To Hygieinus. (358/59) I did not forget the agreement we had about exchanging letters. I was prevented from keeping it by a host of troubles. First, my head laid me low with a flood of dizzy spells, and neither I nor my doctors could feel any confidence. Then the affliction moved down to my stomach, producing discharge …
libanius · c. 377 · score 0.02
To Italicianus. (361 AD) If I did not know you as a man who understands friendship — one who has often worried and labored so that some good might come to his companions — I would be quite afraid that the volume of my letters might annoy you. But since you yourself are among those who praise Achilles [for loyalty to fr …
libanius · c. 338 · score 0.02
To Demetrius. (361) Your letters are themselves a festival -- as is everything that arrives from you. And you did well to find the right moment for the gifts: this time you truly sent them to us, whereas before they would have fallen into the hands of those who were looking to seize things. Euphemius will give you the …
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. 379 · score 0.01
But may you come and show yourselves to those who long for you — since even your forerunner, the noble Pythodoros, has proved of great worth to the cities. For he brought the worship of the gods to its peak, sprinkling every altar with blood and showing that one must sacrifice boldly. And those who had been hesitant fo …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
The manner in which you will complete them, and how you will ward some impending dangers, we have sagely discussed. I seemed, as it were, conversing with yourself. With particular pleasure I received the intelligence of your having defeated the barbarians , and that you had related your victories in a commentary , thus …
libanius · c. 345 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (358) Spectatus — who loves you above all others (whether he is right to do so I cannot say, but that he loves you intensely I know perfectly well) — has returned to us in triumph from the embassy. And thanks to his tongue, we Greeks were not bested by barbarians. Shall I describe the eloquence with which …
libanius · c. 355 · score 0.01
The usual news has reached us: the emperor has won a victory and a barbarian nation has been destroyed. We savor this pleasure while hoping for the next. And the next is this: a letter from you bearing an account of the battle and a tribute to the victor. So announce the news to your eager audience, finest and most for …
libanius · c. 332 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (360) While we were lamenting what has happened to Procopius and praying for his darkness to be lifted, the Cilicians -- the very people who received so many kindnesses from him -- repaid his generosity like Agamemnon [who took what was not his]. Like wolves falling on unguarded sheep, they have plundered …
libanius · c. 355 · score 0.01
I have long considered you a good man, based on Themistocles's friendship with you -- that man would never have befriended anyone who was not thoroughly excellent. During my earlier stay here I had brief contact with you but could not develop it further, since my body was ailing and you were deeply occupied with the gr …
libanius · c. 316 · score 0.01
To Auxentius. (358) I was about to scold you for your fondness for the countryside, convinced that you could have no excuse for rushing off there. But then I received the fruit you sent, and when I saw what your trees produce, I completely changed my mind. Now I am amazed that you can tear yourself away from such land …
libanius · c. 319 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (359) Every effort I make on your behalf is a pleasure to me. Even if the matter we are laboring over is small, the mere fact of laboring for you is its own reward. You, however, endure great toils for great causes -- bearing the fierce sun for so long, running to and fro, adding action to deliberation, an …
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.01
To Julian. (358 AD) You have won a double victory — one in arms, the other in letters — and you have raised a trophy from the barbarians and another from me, your friend. This second trophy is a sweet one for the vanquished. Every father prays to be surpassed by his children, and you, having received from me the paths …
libanius · c. 386 · score 0.01
To the same. (362 AD) Orion became my friend in earlier times, when his mother brought us together. He seemed a decent man — one who blamed rather than imitated those who abused their power. I also heard from the people of Bostra that he neither made war on the temples nor drove out priests, and that he relieved many p …
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. 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 …
libanius · c. 340 · score 0.01
To the same person. (359/360) A mother brought her young son Letoius from Armenia and entrusted him to me, her only child. I was pleased with the boy, who has the capacity to absorb learning -- for the colt is sharp -- and I admired his mother: she had not looked toward a second marriage, though she had only one child, …
libanius · c. 379 · score 0.01
To Auxentios. (361/62) Even when you were staging those remarkable spectacles, purchasing glory with money, I considered it an honor to be associated with you. And now I delight in the honor conveyed by the skin, and though I was not present to witness the beasts' exploits, I can judge from the hide what the leopard di …
libanius · c. 328 · score 0.01
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. 342 · score 0.01
To Acacius. (361) Come now, move on and do for the Galatians what you did for the Phrygians. And what you did for the Phrygians was to lead them to every kind of prosperity through your skill at shepherding. I am convinced of this about you and do not hesitate to proclaim it. You held a higher opinion of me than was wa …
libanius · c. 339 · score 0.01
To Andronicus. (361) I was glad that Hermeias and his family, having obtained justice, both praise you themselves and lead the rhetors, who at that time wrote on their behalf, to even greater...
libanius · c. 354 · score 0.01
Do you realize that it speaks well of you that men of letters like me dare to write to a man of arms like you? This is proof, I think, that you are fierce toward enemies but gentle with your own people -- exactly as the old saying goes: the man in your position must be good at both. Other generals we see only from a di …