Resultados25 letters/passages
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. 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. 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. 343 · score 0.02
To Themistius. (361?) You used to chafe at your education, thinking you were wasting your effort on a useless pursuit. But it turns out you were going to need those weapons after all...
libanius · c. 314 · score 0.02
On all accounts I was pleased to see Ablavius but principally because he brought me a letter from you. For sooner than blame you I should detest myself; such has been your attention to the promotion of my interest, amidst this tedious war, which you could not have been if anyone had spoken to my disadvantage. In seemin …
libanius · c. 357 · score 0.02
I myself fell ill during the summer; Albanius during the autumn. In both cases the cause was the same: overwork in our studies. If anyone is planning to uproot me from here, persuade him that I intend to stay -- both because the authorities allow it and because I have found a way to remain even if they did not.
libanius · c. 316 · score 0.01
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. 316 · score 0.01
To Polychronius. (359/60) What excuse can you offer for your silence? Slowness of mind? Who is sharper than you? A lack of words? You, who teach great matters so clearly? Why, then, are you voiceless? You will not say? Then hear it from me. You cut our provisions and separated the barley from the wheat, and having wron …
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. 341 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (359/360) My companions -- your rhetors -- the men I gave to you and you admired -- these very men who carry this letter are now the target of decrees by which certain people are trying to drag them away from your doors. And these are the same people I have repeatedly rescued from your justified anger. Or …
libanius · c. 339 · score 0.01
To Olympius. (358) Your sons will receive every just treatment from us -- first, on the very ground of justice and the obligation so to act for anyone who is not wicked, and second...
libanius · c. 328 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (358-361) Those colts of mine, whom I have led from the meadows of the Muses and given to you -- some were summoned by you, others came uninvited. I congratulate the first group on the honor you have shown them, and the second on their own longing for you. For by running to you of their own accord, they sh …
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. 342 · score 0.01
To Gerontius. (361?) Sebon is of the noblest Cretan stock, most distinguished among the Greeks, and dearest of men to us. Runaway slaves have... and a refuge sufficient...
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. 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. 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. 361 · score 0.01
To Strategius. (356 AD) We grieved as never before and rejoiced as never before — grieved because your wife was ill, a woman who surpasses even those celebrated in song for virtue, and rejoiced because the illness yielded to the doctors. But rest assured: even without doctors she would have been saved, since the gods o …
libanius · c. 352 · score 0.01
To Aristainetos. (355 AD) When we heard your wife was ill, we shared your pain, imagining how you must feel as she suffered. And when I learned of her death, I cried out, thinking it a terrible thing that Aristainetos — a man whose nature suits festivals — should be in mourning. I set out to console you with words, but …
libanius · c. 347 · score 0.01
To Bassus. (358 AD) You took from us something very great and gave something in return — not small, I would not say that, but not equal to what you took. For by summoning your son you sent us a letter. His presence meant as much to me as your own company, and though the letter was welcome, it was second to him. May Cal …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
To Demetrius. (358/359) Domnus has done me three favors right around the festival of the goddesses: he gives you the means to write, he carries your letters to me, and he always adds to your letters some account of you in person. We first rescued him from the harassment connected with his impending marriage alliance, a …
libanius · c. 340 · score 0.01
To Dulcitius. (361?) You hold a great office. Rumor predicted this and did not lie. But you govern others, not us -- a point on which we might complain to Fortune. Still, there is some consolation even in this: instead of us, our fathers are being looked after, which means we are not entirely without our share of the b …
libanius · c. 320 · score 0.01
To Hygieinus. (359) There is nothing strange about discussing insomnia with a doctor -- explaining the trouble it causes and asking him to put a stop to it. Know, then, that our excellent Cleobulus is suffering terribly from sleeplessness. The cause is not fever, nor dizzy spells, nor sores that keep him tossing. No -- …
libanius · c. 350 · score 0.01
To Thalassius. (358) You are a good fellow for seeking letters and claiming that not receiving them makes you ill, and that receiving them would surely cure you. But this much, even if I very much wished to oblige, I cannot call good: that having received three letters, you accuse me as though I had been completely sil …
libanius · c. 339 · score 0.01
[To the same.] (361?) Among the officers around you, Herodianus is now serving, though previously he fought. He is a man who does good, as he did harm before. I formerly...