Resultados25 letters/passages
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. I agree with the construction you place on the law, my dear Pliny, and I think that the Lex Pompeia is superseded by the edict of Augustus to the extent that persons not less than twenty-two years of age are eligible for office, and that, having held it, they necessarily become senators in all the free …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. You need have had no hesitation, my dear Pliny, on the point concerning which you have thought it necessary to consult me, for you are well aware of my fixed resolve not to seek to make people respect my name by fear and terrorism and charges of treason. Dismiss the inquiry, therefore, which I should n …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. You have done quite right, my dear Pliny, in cancelling the expenditure by the people of Byzantium of those twelve thousand sesterces on a delegate to come and pay their respects to me. They will for the future do their duty well enough, even though the decree alone is sent on to me through you. The go …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. The memorial of the people of Apamea which you enclosed with your letter makes it unnecessary for me to examine into the reasons why they wish it to be known that those who have until now acted as proconsuls in the province refrained from inspecting their accounts, though they have no objection to your …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. You did right to hesitate, my dear Pliny, before giving your answer to the censors who consulted you about the admission to the senate of citizens belonging to other cities but to the same province. For the authority of the law, and the old-established custom of acting contrary to it, naturally pulled …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. I approve your apprehension that there is a look of bribery about invitations which are given on a wholesale scale and exceed due limits, and bring people together in whole societies, as it were, to receive customary presents, which is a very different thing from giving a present to each man because yo …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. The legal position of the cities of Bithynia and Pontus, in getting in moneys which may be due to them for any reason, must be determined by consulting the special laws of each city. If they possess the privilege of ranking as preferential creditors, it must be respected ; if they do not, then I will n …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. You assuredly know, my dear Pliny, how sparingly I grant these favours, for I often declare in the senate that I have not exceeded the number with which I told that august order I should be content. However, I have granted your request, and I have ordered a note to be entered on my diaries that I have …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. You have given me an abundance of private and all the public reasons I could desire for asking leave of absence, but, personally, I should have been quite content to accept the mere expression of your wish, for I have not the slightest doubt that you will return as early as you possibly can to resume y …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. I am glad to learn from your letter, my dear Pliny, with what devotion and joy the troops and the provincials have celebrated the anniversary of my coming to the throne, repeating the formula at your dictation.
boniface · c. 742 · score 0.01
Peter's word and the Apostolic See's command, which neither present nor future generations will presume to change in defiance of the authority of the Apostolic See. Let it be known to you also, Holy Father, that Carloman, Emperor of the Franks, summoned me to his presence and desired me to convoke a synod in that part …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. What steps ought to be taken with respect to those who were banished for three years by the proconsul Servilius Calvus, and afterwards were recalled by an edict of his and remained in the province, I will write and tell you shortly as soon as I have ascertained from Calvus the reason for his recalling …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. Though it is true my edicts forbid the grants of public money to individuals, yet it does not follow that grants made years ago ought to be inquired into anew and revoked and annulled, for to do so would shatter the position of a host of persons. Let us therefore ignore all such donations that are twen …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. Your early solicitation of my favour for those who have been placed under your patronage by Valerius Paulinus does you so much credit that I have in the meantime given orders for a note to be entered in my archives to the effect that I have bestowed the full Roman citizenship on those for whom you have …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. Julius Largus, in picking you out for your loyalty, has acted as though he knew you intimately. So do you consider the circumstances of each place and the best means of perpetuating his memory, and follow the course you think best.
boniface · c. 722 · score 0.01
[Context: This oath is based upon one usually taken by the bishops of the sub-urbicarian sees, but here there is no expression of loyalty to the emperor - it has been changed into submission to the Holy See.] In the name of God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ. In the sixth year of Leo, by the grace of God crowned emper …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. It is possible, of course, that Domitian was unaware of the true circumstances in which Archippus was situated when he wrote in such a flattering strain about the honour to be paid him. However, it suits my way of thinking better to suppose that he was restored to his old position by the intervention o …
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 …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
They are not performing their penance in accordance with the sentence passed upon them but, on the contrary, they are still leading the people astray. For this reason I have been despatched with this letter from my master and offer it to Your Apostolic Holiness that it may be read out this sacred council. The reply was …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. If you will send me the decree of the senate which has made you hesitate, I will form my opinion as to whether or not you ought to investigate cases in which the petitioners claim they were born free, and demand the restitution of their birth-right.
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 …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
Trajan to Pliny. We may certainly utilise the courtyard and the ruined mansion, which you say is unoccupied, for the construction of the baths at Prusa. But you did not make it quite clear whether the temple in the colonnade was ever actually completed and consecrated to Claudius; for if it was, then even though it is …
basil_caesarea · c. 373 · score 0.01
The common law of human nature makes older men fathers to the young, and the particular law of Christians puts us elders in the place of parents. Do not think me impertinent, then, if I plead with you on behalf of your son. In other matters I think it entirely right that you should expect obedience from him. His body i …
boniface · c. 745 · score 0.01
Leoban sent the letter to the city of Westphalia, where it was received by a priest Macrius. He sent the letter to Mont St. Michel. In the end, through the intervention of an angel, the letter reached Rome, even the tombs of the Apostles, where the keys of the kingdom of heaven are. And the twelve dignitaries who are i …
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 …