Resultados12 letters/passages
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
It seems an entirely honorable and necessary undertaking to petition a pious Emperor for the security of the Roman state, since it is fitting to seek from you what can benefit our liberty. For among all the blessings God has uniquely granted you, nothing is more glorious than the knowledge that you have the power to gi …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
We give thanks to God, to whom the peace of kings is always welcome, that you have declared our accession most pleasing to your clemency. It is clear that you can love one whom you are glad to see reach the summit of kingship. This is how a man should be received who presumed to be elevated through your favor. Grant th …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
Through the venerable priest Heracleanus, an imperial letter from Your Serenity has illuminated us, generously granting the favor of your words and fittingly offering the gift of your greeting — so that it is truly a great benefit to have merited so gracious a conversation with the Em …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
[1] It is fitting, most wise Emperor, that you should gladly grant us those things which, if we were negligent in seeking them, your own clemency would rightly urge us to request. For the harmony between our realms serves not merely our interests but the peace of the civilized world. When the powers that guard its west …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
I understand that your Serenity's favor is richer than any gift, since you urge me to do things that can only benefit my own soul. Such is always the wish of one who loves — that you want us to perform acts of mercy that commend us to divine power. Therefore I report to Your Glory that the convent of God's handmaids, w …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
Our desire is fulfilled whenever we have the opportunity to send a salutary letter to your piety, because the man who speaks with you in sincere spirit is always filled with joyful happiness. And so, greeting your clemency with fitting honor, I commend to you the bearer of this letter, who comes on business of the chur …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
My Senate grows in honors, increases ceaselessly in wealth. "Do not through discord scatter what you ought to defend through war. I have had many kings, but never one so learned. I have had wise men, but none so distinguished in both learning and devotion. I love this son of the Amal line [Witigis], nursed at my breast …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
If ancient emperors strove to devise laws so that their subjects might enjoy delightful peace, it is far nobler to decree measures that accord with sacred rules. Let the damaging profits of our age be banished. The only thing we can truly call gain is what divine judgment does not punish. Recently, a defender of the Ro …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
You will recall, wisest of Emperors, that both through our ambassadors and through the very eloquent Peter, whom Your Piety recently sent to us, we have shown how earnestly we desire harmony with your August Serenity. Now again, through the same most holy man, I thought it right to repeat these appeals — so that you ma …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Theodahad to the Emperor Justinian. [1] The close relationship between the kingdoms of the East and West, which my predecessors Theoderic and Athalaric cultivated with such care, is one that I am eager to maintain and strengthen. The peace of the world depends upon the harmony between our two great powers, and I a …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
[1] The grace of Your Piety delights us so deeply that whatever might contribute to our honor, we gladly seek from your side — because such requests are more properly called marks of mutual friendship than signs of need. For the gifts exchanged between allies do not diminish the giver but enrich both parties, and what …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Most merciful Emperor, how deeply I desire the sweetness of your favor can be understood from this alone: that after so many grievous injuries, after so much bloodshed, I still seek your peace as though no one on your side had ever harmed us. We have endured things that could offend even those who inflicted them — pros …