Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.02
… uly yours alone, sprung from no precedent. While others, the moment they attain imperial power, take on a love of money — some beginning to crave what they never desired before, others intensifying a passion already dwelling in them — you alone, upon entering into power, gave away your patrimony to your companions: a h …
libanius · c. 371 · score 0.02
To Emperor Julian. (~360 AD) I sent you the speech — a small thing about great matters. To make the speech greater, you are surely the master, if you grant what would make it so. By granting it, you will show that you consider me a craftsman of encomia. By not granting it, you will leave room for other suspicions.
libanius · c. 385 · score 0.02
To the Emperor Julian. (362 AD) If this is the product of a sluggish tongue, what would you be if you sharpened it? But in your mouth dwell springs of eloquence too powerful to need any tributary. We, on the other hand, if not watered daily, have no choice but silence. You seek to receive my speech without an advocate …
libanius · c. 363 · score 0.02
That Alexander was appointed to the government at first, I confess, gave me some concern, as the principal persons among us were dissatisfied. I thought it dishonourable, injurious, and unbecoming a prince; and that repeated fines would rather weaken than improve the city. But now the good effects of this severity are …
libanius · c. 314 · score 0.02
Unless you were well apprised how long ago my friendship with the excellent Macedonius was contracted, and for what reasons it has been since improved, of these I would first apprise you; but knowing as you do its foundation, you will not wonder that I, who would decline no danger for my friends, should devote to his s …
libanius · c. 361 · score 0.02
However much I condemned that journey, fatiguing as it was , I no less, or rather more, condemned myself for returning so soon instead of going to the place appointed and there indulging my eyes the next morning at sun-rising, with the sight of his divine visage. And so unfortunate is the city that she could not afford …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
Many blessing attend you for showing that when I celebrated your talents I was not a liar, or rather for having shown that I was a liar in promising nothing equal to what you have performed! This is all your own, and copied from no model. For though some, together with the empire, have assumed the love of money, contra …
libanius · c. 378 · score 0.01
To Julian. (~361 AD) As for the most villainous slave—how he will pay the penalty for both what he said and what he did—that is a matter for the laws and for me. But with your office, also take over the goodwill which the admirable Priscianus held toward Seleukos. In doing this you will make the teachers Kalliopios and …
libanius · c. 362 · score 0.01
I have discharged my obligations to Aristophanes , but you, in return, have given me such splendid tokens of a vehement affection as are conspicuous both to gods and men. So that now I seem almost to soar into the sky, elevated by your letter, which has inspired me with such hopes and has so decorated my oration that a …
libanius · c. 370 · score 0.01
To Julian. (357) Now that you have what you requested and what you said you would give, send it along and gratify your homeland with gifts welcome to those coming from it. Word has reached us that the bears in your region perform wonderfully and are so numerous you can even spare some. Even if there were only one, you …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
The manner in which you will complete them, and how you will ward some impending dangers, we have sagely discussed. I seemed, as it were, conversing with yourself. With particular pleasure I received the intelligence of your having defeated the barbarians , and that you had related your victories in a commentary , thus …
libanius · c. 389 · score 0.01
To Emperor Julian. (363) As much as I blamed the road — for it was harsh — so much and more I blame myself for turning back so quickly, instead of pressing on to the stopping-point itself and granting myself the chance to see that divine head at dawn the next day. For not even the city could console me, doing as badly …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
You have gained a double victory , one by your arms, the other by your eloquence. One trophy is erected to you by the barbarians, and the other by me your friend; a trophy this most pleasing even to a conqueror. For all parents wish to be excelled by their children , and you, who by me have been instructed in writing, …
libanius · c. 362 · score 0.01
To Julian of Antioch. (362) Are you then forgetful of us? But Phoenicia does not suffer us to be forgetful of you, as she celebrates your reign in immortal hymns. From your Asia also flows the fame of your actions, increasing our expectations. For nothing that we have heard, great as all these actions are, is so great …
libanius · c. 314 · score 0.01
The laws and myself will take care that that most abandoned servant shall be punished for what he has said and done. But you, together with the empire, show that you possess also such benevolence as the excellent Priscian displayed to Seleucus . Acting thus, you will induce the preceptors of Arrhabius -- I mean Calliop …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
Alas! alas! how insatiable is your desire of further attainments! You possess the palm of eloquence, snatched from others, at once "A matchless prince and a most potent sage" Other princes have acted and we applauded, but you excell in both those capacities. For how can we speak so highly in commendation of your action …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
Another earthquake, which was also felt at Constantinople and Nice, swallowed up the remains of Nicomedia on January 1, 363. Homer, Odyssey 24.60 Iliad 16.459. A philosopher to whom Julian addressed his 57th letter. Libanius also wrote several letters to him and mentions him in several others. I have been unable to loc …
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.01
To Julian. (358 AD) You have won a double victory — one in arms, the other in letters — and you have raised a trophy from the barbarians and another from me, your friend. This second trophy is a sweet one for the vanquished. Every father prays to be surpassed by his children, and you, having received from me the paths …
libanius · c. 315 · score 0.01
I can hardly believe that, than which nothing can be more certain. Departing from you, in obedience to your order, and on an urgent occasion, I am both willingly and unwillingly absent from you. For I think that I could be sooner negligent of my life than of your commands. Any labours, however great, seem trifles; howe …
libanius · c. 389 · score 0.01
But for now, cross the rivers and fall upon the archers, more fearsome than any river. After that you will deliberate on the matters you say you will deliberate upon. And do not weary of cheering the absent one by whatever means you have. For I will write, calling forth your letters even from the midst of battle, trust …
libanius · c. 314 · score 0.01
Gemellus is my relation and my friend and by his manners is no disgrace to his family. If he had been possessed of money and a large estate, he would long ago have been employed on some public function. But as his fortune is small he has, by my advice, taken a method which may exempt him from tears and chains, the usua …
libanius · c. 314 · score 0.01
To be the instrument of conferring wealth on the mother and fame on her father will do you no dishonour. Every word from you makes a strong impression on the hearers. The son of Pelagius of Cyrus, a city in Syria, an orator and a philosopher. Libanius praises him several times in other letters, and addresses three to h …
libanius · c. 369 · score 0.01
To Julian. (357) That you would deal gently with the cities I knew well, for such is your nature. But I was delighted to hear that you also have a sting for those who need stinging. Clematios reported this — a man with a sharp sting of his own. I found myself doubly pleased, since the man being praised is my fellow cit …
libanius · c. 363 · score 0.01
The oration , which contains some account of your glorious actions, you honour not only with praise but admiration. And as you are ranked among the learned, you maintain, I am told, that Demosthenes could not have written more forcibly, Socrates more agreeably or Plato more copiously on the occasion. You affirm also th …
libanius · c. 372 · score 0.01
To Julian. Do not stop overwhelming me with such treatment — keep it up, and with things still greater.