Resultados25 letters/passages
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. The permits, of which the terms have expired, ought not to be recognised, and consequently I make it my special duty to send out new permits to all the provinces before the day when they are required.
ennodius_pavia · c. 518 · score 0.02
He provides what is necessary who brings orphans and foreigners to the attention of the parent of all: the only path is the consolation of your apostolate, which heals strangers. Far be it from me to call afflicted those whom it befalls to reach you: parents, homeland, and wealth are not sought elsewhere by those whom …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. I have been glad to learn from your letter that the anniversary of my succession has been celebrated by the troops and the provincials with due thanksgiving, reciting the formula after you.
pope_symmachus · c. 513 · score 0.02
Ennodius to Pope Symmachus. He commends to the pope, father of all, a distinguished young man named Beatus. To Symmachus, Pope. He does not petition in vain who introduces strangers to the father of all. A general advocacy is owed to those of noble birth, especially before those who bestow benefits without being asked. …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. I have been glad to learn from your letter, my dear Pliny, that the troops and the provincials in joyful unison have paid the vows they made for my safety, reciting the formula after you, and that they have undertaken new vows for the future.
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. I wish it had been possible for you and your companions to reach Bithynia without the slightest inconvenience or illness, and that you could have had as pleasant a journey by water from Ephesus as you had as far as that city. However, I have learned from your letters, my dear Pliny, the date of your ar …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. I make a practice of following the rules of my predecessors in not making promiscuous grants of the Alexandrine citizenship, but since you have already obtained the Roman citizenship for Harpocras, your ointment-doctor, I cannot very well refuse this further request of yours. You must let me know to wh …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
… ns who were attached to him, as he pretended: and yet before the arrival of the imperial letters this same people had deluged him with abuse. But we do not make much of these matters now, but have said what we have said as wishing to prove the fact that he was arrested in his mischievous course. Yet even after these th …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
Having considered therefore all these things, and having been clearly informed of all particulars by my lords, our most devout brethren the bishops, may you be induced to exert your zeal on our behalf; for in so doing you will confer a favour not upon ourselves alone but also upon the Church at large, and you will rece …
ennodius_pavia · c. 520 · score 0.01
Ennodius to Symmachus. Petition is never ineffective when it reaches a man of justice and compassion. I bring my request to you confident that it will receive the hearing it deserves — not because I have any claim on your time, but because the cause itself does. Consider it, and act as your conscience directs. Farewell …
pope_hilary · c. 461 · score 0.01
Would that I were able to obey your commands, venerable archdeacon Hilary, with effect as readily as with desire. For this is indeed an arduous work and the capacity of my understanding is slight. I however, for what concerns me, even if I am surpassed by the magnitude of the assigned material, shall be sufficiently sa …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
… ns. Being conscious therefore of what he had done, and dreading conviction, the imperial letters having been sent in every direction, convoking all men from all quarters, Theophilus secretly at midnight flung himself into a boat, and so made his escape, taking all his company with him. 3. But even then we did not desis …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
Correspondence with Pope Innocent I From John to Innocent To my lord, the most reverend and divinely beloved bishop Innocent, John sends greeting in the Lord 1. I suppose that even before receiving our letter your Piety has heard of the iniquity which has been perpetrated here. For the magnitude of our distress has lef …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
For as a proof that our silence has not been due to negligence, we have now at last after a long time secured our most honoured and beloved John the presbyter, and Paul the deacon, and we send a letter through them, and continue to express our gratitude to you, that you have surpassed even affectionate parents in your …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.01
Copy of the report of John, Bishop of Constantinople. To my lord, holy in every way, most blessed brother and fellow minister Hormisdas — John sends greetings in the Lord. I greet Your Holiness, dearest brother in Christ, and in greeting I proclaim: the true faith is safe, and the love of brotherhood is confirmed. This …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Simplicius. Though my longing to see you has been attended by such ill fortune that you are still denied to my sight, you are not, best of men, someone whose high merits can remain hidden from us. For all our leading citizens — the most distinguished men of the region — celebrate you with unanimous praise as a fathe …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
Therefore to prevent such confusion overtaking the whole earth yield to our entreaties that you will signify by writing that these lawless transactions executed in our absence, and after hearing one side only, although we did not decline a trial, are invalid, as indeed they are by the very nature of the case, and that …
synesius_cyrene · c. 408 · score 0.01
To Simplicius. A man's feelings should not rise and fall with the turns of fortune, and the memory of old friends should never seem less important than present dignities. You have been forgetful of us for a long time. That is not right, considering the deep affection that once bound us so closely together.
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Simplicius. There is a proverb — "you are urging a willing runner" — that fits anyone asked to do what he would have done anyway without being asked. You may wonder where this is leading. The bearer of this letter earnestly begged me to let him carry a letter to you. But once I learned he was traveling your way, I w …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
And when day dawned all the city was migrating outside the walls under trees and groves, celebrating the festival, like scattered sheep. 4. All which happened afterwards I leave you to imagine; for as I said before it is not possible to describe each separate incident. The worst of it is that these evils, great and ser …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
For how could one who had not yet received any bills of indictment against me, and had acted from the outset in the manner described, and severed himself from the Church, from communion, and from prayer, and was training accusers, and seducing the clergy, and desolating the Church, how, I say, could he with justice mou …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Gelasius. You prove — and I do not deny — that I have been remiss, since I have not yet included any letter addressed to you in my collected works. But you write that my fault would be forgivable if I sent you an example like the one I sent to my dear Tonantius for a similar purpose — a poem in hendecasyllables. Bey …
pope_hilary · c. 461 · score 0.01
Nor is each one merely dissimilar from the other by his own definition, but each individual one of them also subsists now in variety and now fails in assertion by the aforementioned alternation of lunar and diurnal reckoning. To this is added that the lunar enumeration itself has been so varied by the opinions of all, …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his friend Simplicius. As for the fact that I sent a letter but received none in return — I attribute it to friendship, but I credit it even more to modesty. For unless I am unfair in my judgment, the failure to return my greeting was not contempt but shyness. But if you continue to shut and bolt your door …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.01
Copy of the libellus of John, Bishop of Constantinople. To my lord, holy in all things, most blessed brother and fellow minister Hormisdas — John sends greetings in the Lord. When the letters of Your Holiness were delivered to me, dearest brother in Christ — first by the distinguished count Gratus, and now by the most …