Resultados21 letters/passages
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. It is owing to the situation of the free city of Byzantium, and the fact that so many travellers make their way into it from all sides, that, in conformity with established precedent, I have decided to send them a legionary centurion to protect their privileges. If I were to decide to assist the people …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. Let us not forget that you were sent to your province for the express reason that there seemed to be many abuses rampant there which required correction. And most certainly we must redress such a scandal as that persons condemned to penalties should not only, as you say, be released therefrom without a …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.02
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 0.02
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 0.02
… 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 0.02
Trajan to Pliny. You did right, my dear Pliny, in having confidence in my sympathy. There is no doubt that, if you had waited to ask my permission to expedite your wife's journey by the permits which I have given you for official purposes, they would have been of little service to her, especially as the speed with whic …
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 …
pope_symmachus · c. 507 · score 0.01
To the consultations of our most beloved brother Bishop Caesarius we respond with the authority and care that the apostolic see owes to all the churches. We recall that the use of the pallium was granted to him, and we subjoin the booklet by which he consulted us. Concerning the first point, that the property of the Ch …
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 …
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 …
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 …
gregory_nazianzus · c. 365 · score 0.01
Gregory to Basil. You summoned me to Caesarea with a letter claiming you were dangerously ill. I dropped everything and set out at once, my heart heavy with grief and fear. But I had not gone far before I learned the truth: you are in your usual health, and the real reason for your summons was that the archbishopric of …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
We seeing this, were in great perplexity, not being able to discover the cause of this unjust hostility; nevertheless we discharged our part, doing what became us, and continually beseeching him to meet us and to say for what cause he hazarded so great a contest at the outset, and threw the city into such confusion. Bu …
ennodius_pavia · c. 519 · score 0.01
--- Now that the longed-for necessity of mine — desired so ardently, felt so keenly — began, through the grace of your nearness, to promise the fulfillment of that desire, you have migrated in spirit to some more distant country: even as you almost touch Liguria with your hand, you have given your tongue a holiday. Whe …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
And women from the oratories who had stripped themselves for baptism just at that time, fled unclothed, from terror at this grievous assault, not being permitted to put on the modest apparel which befits women; indeed many received wounds before they were expelled, and the baptismal pools were filled with blood, and th …
chrysostom · c. 405 · score 0.01
This is our wall of defense, this is our security, this our calm haven, this our treasure of infinite blessings, this our gladness, and ground of much joy. And even if we should be carried off again to some spot more desolate than this, we will carry this love away with us as no small consolation of our sufferings. Fro …
ennodius_pavia · c. 503 · score 0.01
Ennodius to Hormisdas. We know that the sacraments of a religious vocation free those who hold them from the entanglements of sin — not because the holy are immune to temptation, but because the commitment itself provides both armor and direction. I write to you, brother, not as a teacher but as a fellow traveler who l …