Resultados25 letters/passages
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
To Syagrius [a young Gallo-Roman aristocrat, great-grandson of a consul, living among the Burgundians]. You are the great-grandson of a consul — and through the male line, though that matters less to my present point. You are descended from a poet [Syagrius's ancestor, the consul, was also a literary man] whose statues …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius to his dear Namatius, greetings. 1. The dictator Julius Caesar, who they say administered military affairs with greater generalship than any other, was claimed in turn by the rival pursuits of writing and reading. And though in the person of this one man the military and oratorical sciences competed for primac …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius to his dear Johannes, greetings. 1. I believed, most learned sir, that I would be committing a sin against scholarship if I delayed to pursue with praises the fact that you have delayed the destruction of letters — of which, now virtually buried, you are celebrated as the reviver, champion, and defender. Throu …
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
To Arbogastes [count of Trier, a descendant of the Frankish general Arbogastes who served under Theodosius I; one of the last Roman officials on the Rhine frontier]. Your friend Eminentius, my honored elder, delivered to me the letter you composed — a letter brimming with the triple grace of learning. The first of thes …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Faustus, greetings. 1. Both your eloquence and your devotion hold to their accustomed standard, and for this reason I admire your speech because you write so well, and your affection because you write so willingly. But for the present, with your permission first sought and then obtained, I j …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Secundus [Sidonius's kinsman, since they share the same grandfather/great-uncle]. Yesterday — the grief of it! — profane hands nearly violated the tomb of my grandfather and your great-grandfather. The cemetery has long been so packed with cremated remains and buried corpses that for some time no fresh grave could b …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Hesperius, greetings. 1. I love in you your love of letters, and I strive to honor with the fullest praise the generosity of a dedication through which you commend not only your own beginnings but our own efforts as well. For when we see the talents of the younger generation growing up in this very …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
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 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Heronius, greetings. 1. After the wedding of the patrician Ricimer -- that is, after the resources of both empires had been squandered on the celebration -- serious public business was at last resumed, opening the door and field for the conduct of affairs. Meanwhile I was graciously received in the …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Accordingly, in Avienus the rapid accumulation of honors was noted as pleasant, in Basilius their slow but steady growth as impressive. Both, to be sure, whenever they left their houses, were hemmed in by a crowd of clients going before, following behind, and pressing all around. But the hopes and ambitions of their re …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius To The Lord Pope Graecus, greetings. Oneras, consummatissime pontificum, verecundiam meam, multifaria laude cumulando if quid stilo rusticante peraravero. atque would that reatu careat, quod apicum primore congressu quamquam circumscriptus, veritati resultantia tamen et diversa conexui; ignorantiae indeed meae …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
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 0.01
To the Lord Bishop Perpetuus [Bishop of Tours, the powerful metropolitan who had commissioned the new basilica of Saint Martin]. Out of your passion for spiritual reading — and your library of both scriptural and theological works is deeply familiar to you — you wish to know even those things that are surely unworthy o …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
He was strangled at home by the hands of his slaves — murdered in his bed with his breathing choked off and his throat bound tight, dying, if not the death of Lentulus or Jugurtha or Sejanus, then at least that of Scipio Numantinus [all Romans said to have been murdered in their beds]. The one consolation in this catas …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Though the muttering chorus of the envious betrays its rage with doglike snarling, nothing is said openly — they fear the public verdict. They batter the stern, they shake the hull, they beat against the rounded flanks, and sinister tongues hiss and whistle around the mast. But I, my prow held straight by art, fearing …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Books were everywhere in abundance — you could have imagined yourself among the shelves of a school, the tiers of an Athenaeum, or a bookseller's well-stocked stall. The volumes near the ladies' chairs were religious works; those by the gentlemen's couches were distinguished by the grand style of Latin eloquence. Thoug …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Donidius. You ask why, having set out for Nimes some time ago, I am prolonging your suspense by my delayed return. I give you the reasons for my tardiness without delay — for what delights me will delight you too. I have been spending the most pleasurable time among the most beautiful estates and the most gracious h …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Simplicius and Apollinaris [Sidonius's relatives, probably his son and another kinsman]. Good God, how like a storm-tossed sea is the agitation of the human spirit — we are thrown into confusion by the squalls of adverse news as though by our own personal tempests! Recently my son and I were savoring the wit of Tere …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
4. For just as nothing becomes a new bride less than a more beautiful bridesmaid, and just as if you dress in white, any dark person looks blacker still, so my work -- such as it is -- surrounded by the more powerful trumpets, is reduced to a worthless straw, which is pronounced the more contemptible for being placed i …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
"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
To Audax. Where, I would like to know, are they hiding now — those men who used to congratulate themselves on their heaped-up wealth and their piles of tarnished silver? Where, too, is the presumption of those who puffed themselves up against the promise of younger men on the sole ground of their seniority? Where are t …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Secundinus. For a long time now we have been reading your work with admiration and praise — you who are most at home in hexameters. Your subjects were always delightful, whether you were describing the wedding torches of the marriage chamber or beasts pierced by royal spear-thrusts. But in the triple trochaic hendec …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his son Apollinaris. It would be only fair to curb my loquacity with the same silence you have imposed on me. But since perfect love ought to remember what it owes rather than keep account of what has been repaid, I once again — loosening the reins of modesty — repeat the tribute of this shameless correspon …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Firminus [the dedicatee of Book 9]. If you recall, my dear son, you had asked that this ninth book — specially composed for you — be added to the eight I wrote for Constantius, a man of singular genius, sound counsel, and an eloquence in public affairs that surpasses all others, whether they argue different cases or …