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sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
But if verses devoid of ease and happiness cannot win approval, you too will find nothing pleasing on the page I append below. [The poem that follows describes the barbarian peoples gathered at the court of Euric in Bordeaux:] Why do you try to rouse the Muses now, Lampridius, glory of our poetry, and force me to compo …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
To the Lord Bishop Graecus [Bishop of Marseille]. Here once again our Amantius — that gossipmonger of ours — returns to his Marseille, doubtless planning to bring home some profit from the city's markets, if only a favorable cargo-ship should arrive. Through him I would chatter at length in a lighter vein, if my heart …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Basilius, greetings. 1. By God's gift and the new example of our times, we have the old rights of friendship, and it is long since we have loved one another equally. Moreover, as regards our shared conscience, you are my patron -- though I speak presumptuously and arrogantly in saying even t …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
This is the character that favorable report has brought us. Send word quickly if the reports match reality, so that those on perpetual guard duty — whom neither snowy days nor moonless, stormy nights persuade to sound the retreat from the walls — may catch their breath. For even when the barbarian withdraws to winter q …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius To His Dear Ecdicius, greetings. Duo nunc pariter mala sustinent Arverni tui. 'quaenam?' inquis. praesentiam Seronati et absentiam tuam. Seronati, inquam: de cuius ut primum etiam nomine loquar, sic mihi videtur quasi praescia futurorum lusisse fortuna, sicuti ex adverso maiores nostri proelia, quibus nihil es …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
For the sake of the hope of this glorious peace, we tore herbs from the cracks in the city walls for food, often poisoned by unfamiliar plants whose undistinguished leaves and green juices were gathered by hands as pale as famine itself. And for all these proofs of devotion, we are told that our people have been sacrif …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Thaumastus [brother of Apollinaris, a kinsman of Sidonius]. We have finally tracked down the men who have been slandering your brother's friendships at the court of our tetrarch [the Burgundian king Chilperic] — and equally those of the new emperor's faction — if indeed the careful detective work of our friends has …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
4. He was being held in custody on the Capitoline, under the guard of his host Flavius Asellus, Count of the Sacred Largesses, who still revered in him the half-extinguished dignity of a prefecture so recently torn away. Meanwhile the envoys of the province of Gaul -- Tonantius Ferreolus, a former prefect and grandson …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
In the midst of all this water, we were thirsty, because nowhere was there a clean aqueduct, a settleable cistern, a flowing spring, or an unsullied well. 7. Moving on from there, we came to the Rubicon, which takes its name from the crimson color of its gravel, and which was once the boundary between the Cisalpine Gau …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Drunk on new wealth — and here you see their character even in small things — their very extravagance in spending betrays their inexperience in possessing. They cheerfully appear armed at dinner parties, in white at funerals, in furs at church, in black at weddings, and in beaver-skin cloaks at religious processions. N …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius To His Dear Constantius, greetings. Salutat the people Arvernus, cuius parva tuguria magnus hospes implesti, non ambitiosus comitatu sed ambiendus affectu. deus bone, quod gaudium fuit laboriosis, when tu sanctum pedem semirutis moenibus intulisti! quam tu ab omni ordine sexu aetate stipatissimus ambiebare! qu …
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
Sidonius to his dear Vincentius, greetings. 1. The fate of Arvandus [the Praetorian Prefect of Gaul, tried for treason in Rome around 469 AD] distresses me, and I do not pretend otherwise. For this too redounds to the emperor's credit: that one may openly love even those condemned to death. I was a friend to the man, a …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
This color comes not from anger but from modesty. His shoulders are rounded, his upper arms powerful, his forearms hard, his hands broad. His chest juts out beyond a receding belly. A spine that sits lower than the ridge of his ribs divides the plain of his back. On either side, the flanks are knotted with prominent mu …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Ferreolus [a former praetorian prefect of Gaul, now retired]. If I had considered the age, order, and standing of our friendship and kinship rather than your present circumstances, my pen would rightly have dedicated the first headings and the first greetings of this work to you. It would have traced your ancestral …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
After this proof of heavenly patronage, I was received in a lodging we had hired, and even now, writing these lines while reclining, I am giving a little time to rest. 10. I have not yet presented myself at the turbulent doors of the emperor and his court. For I arrived just in time for the wedding of the patrician Ric …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To my dear Papianilla [Sidonius's wife]. The quaestor Licinianus, arriving from Ravenna, the moment he crossed the Alps and touched Gallic soil, sent a letter ahead announcing his coming. In it he reports that he carries imperial letters patent granting the patriciate to your brother Ecdicius as well — whose honors bri …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his friend Hypatius. If the distinguished Donidius — an admirer and champion of your character — had been thinking only of his domestic advantage, your good faith would have been more than enough for his interests, even without an intercessor. But he was led by his affection for me to ask me to petition for …
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 his dear Heronius, greetings. 1. I received your letter while in Rome. You ask anxiously whether my journey is proceeding according to our joint plan, what sort of road I have traveled, which rivers I have seen that are famous in the songs of poets, which cities are renowned for the setting of their walls, …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius To His Dear Philimatius, greetings. I nunc, et legibus me ambitus interrogatum senatu move, cur adipiscendae dignitati hereditariae curis pervigilibus incumbam; cui pater socer, avus proavus praefecturis urbanis praetorianisque, magisteriis Palatinis militaribusque micuerunt. et ecce Gaudentius meus, hactenus …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his friend Agricola. You have asked me many times — since Theodoric, King of the Goths [Theodoric II, r. 453-466], has a reputation among the peoples for his civilized conduct — to describe in a letter what he looks like and how he lives. I am happy to oblige, as far as the limits of a letter allow, and I c …
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 …