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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 friend Felix. Gozolas, a Jew by nationality and a client of your household — a man whose person would be dear to me as well, if his religion were not an object of contempt — carries this letter, which I have written in a state of deep anxiety. The armed forces of the nations surrounding us terrify our l …
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
To Pannychius. You know that Seronatus [a corrupt Roman official who collaborated with the Visigoths] is returning to Toulouse — or if you do not know yet (and I believe you do not), learn it from these signs. Already Euanthius is hurrying ahead to Clausetia, assembling work-crews to clear whatever autumn leaves may ha …
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. 474 · score 0.02
Sidonius to his dear Pudens, greetings. 1. Your son has carried off my nurse's daughter: a disgraceful deed, and one that would have made enemies of us both, had I not immediately known that you knew nothing of what was to be done. But with the purgation of your conscience already established, you now see fit to ask fo …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
But why have I foolishly added these thoughts, as though I were giving advice when I came seeking it? Rather, let everything be arranged according to your judgment, decision, and letters — and made known to the clergy and the people. For we are not so far gone in folly that we would decide to summon you first — if it i …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 479 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Turnus, greetings. 1. How fittingly the words of the Mantuan poet apply to your name and your situation: "Turnus, what no god would have dared to promise the hopeful, see -- the turning of days has brought unbidden." Your father Turpio, a man of tribunician rank, some time ago -- if you recall -- b …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
7. But after two months or more, when certain travelers reported that the man, now departed (all too quickly even by our reckoning), was secretly carrying in sealed bundles the treasures of a sacred treasury, I sent swift horses in pursuit of the departing guest -- horses that could easily have devoured the distance of …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to the Abbot Chariobaudus. You do a thing, my singular patron in Christ, that is in keeping with both your love and your way of life: you soften the cares of a friend in exile with letters of consolation. If only you would always remember me in this way — so that the anxieties that chain themselves together in …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
13. She has been your attendant from your earliest years, your inseparable companion at your side, whether you trained in the urban arena or were worn down in remote solitudes, your partner in the academy and in the monastery alike; with you she renounces worldly disciplines, with you she proclaims the heavenly. Whoeve …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 479 · score 0.01
4. When we rose from table, I privately inquired of those standing by which of the three orders of life he had taken up -- whether he was living as a monk, a cleric, or a penitent. They said he had recently been bound, despite his protests, by the duty of the priesthood, which the partisan love of his fellow citizens h …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
Or did you fear the raised eyebrow of a difficult and stern critic? What mortal possesses such arrogance, such swollen pride, as not to greet even your tepid works with the most fervent praise? 5. Or did you take care to disdain and neglect me because you looked down on a younger man? I can scarcely believe that. Or be …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Petreius. I am deeply grieved by the loss to our age of your uncle Claudianus [Claudianus Mamertus, the philosopher-priest of Vienne], who has been taken from our sight. I wonder whether we shall ever see his equal again. He was a man of foresight, prudence, learning, and eloquence — sharp-minded and the most brilli …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 460 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Ambrosius, greetings. 1. Your Holiness has prevailed with Christ through the power of intercession on behalf of our dearest friend -- why should I name the name and person? You will recognize everything. You had often complained about his youthful weakness, sometimes openly with witnesses ca …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 473 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Constantius, greetings. 1. With you it began; with you it shall end. For I have sent the work you requested, having hastily selected copies that came to hand in small number, because nothing can be found unguarded by one who had given no thought until now to the compilation of this little book. The …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
These few words about his intellectual life. But who could adequately praise the rest — that, always mindful of the human condition, he consoled the grieving with his words, the destitute with his help, the captives with ransom, the hungry with food, the naked with clothing? I judge it unnecessary to say more on these …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
You bind up their slick arguments in chains of categorical logic, in the manner of skilled physicians who, when reason requires, prepare even from the serpent a remedy against its poison. 16. But all this belongs in our time only to the contemplation of your conscience and the power of your learning. For who could foll …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 462 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Principius, greetings. 1. Although we were not expecting it, yet were certainly longing for it, your old courier delivered your letter -- a man proven reliable, to whom repeated commissions may justly be entrusted, since he carried out the first so well. Thus, honored by a second greeting or …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Ambrosius, greetings. 1. Your holiness prevailed with Christ on behalf of our dearest friend (why should I mention his name or person? You will recognize everything). You had often complained, sometimes openly before chosen witnesses and sometimes groaning inwardly in silence, about the yout …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
the commissioned letter might neither be denied to friendship when written, nor subjected to your censure when read. 2. Let us put that aside. You command that another copious page be sent. The will to obey is present in one eager to comply, but the occasions are lacking. For a mere greeting, unless some business of ac …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To the Lord Bishop Euphronius [Bishop of Autun]. Since the chains of clerical office bind me, I would pronounce the state of my modest position the most fortunate in the world if only our residences were as close as our dioceses. I would consult your wisdom on every matter great and small, and the course of my actions …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 479 · score 0.01
Therefore write to those who are anxious, and so that they may trust your letter more, join mine to it: whatever the outcome of his illness -- and I pray God it may be favorable for our brother -- I shall both extend the period of repayment by a full year and forgive the accumulated half that has accrued through the na …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
He set the psalms to music, trained the choirs, and taught the ordered ranks to sing before the altar, to his brother's joy. He prepared the readings for each annual feast, assigning what was fitting for each season. He was a bishop in the second rank, lifting from his brother's shoulders the weight of the episcopal bu …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
Hear, then, what an injured man judges concerning your writings. 10. I have read a work of supreme labor: manifold, keen, sublime, organized by topics and packed with examples, divided in two parts under the framework of a dialogue, and in four parts according to the arrangement of its themes. You had written many pass …