Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 381 · score 0.02
When the good Menander arrived from your region and wanted to tell me everything that had happened from sky to earth, I redirected him to the subject of you, and we were both delighted. The reports were splendid -- entirely worthy of your family, your education, and the hopes placed in you. I could not possibly urge yo …
libanius · c. 342 · score 0.02
To Apolinarius and Gemellus. (361?) Even now I consider you to be doing nothing other than learning -- and learning the greatest thing among men: how to govern. For this teaches...
libanius · c. 334 · score 0.02
To Eusebius. (360) Let the wild beasts be preserved, let no one slaughter them, let someone provide the spectacle without that, and let the master not be lord of his own property. Such is the letter that has come from the prefect. And we, who used to admire the man for his other qualities, are astonished at this novelt …
libanius · c. 349 · score 0.02
To Aristainetos. (~358 AD) So you were destined after all to taste the labors of office, since you did not flee governance by every possible means. And now it is the belt of rank, military service, crowds at your door, sleepless nights, and anxieties — while that famous leisure of yours and your idleness have departed. …
libanius · c. 321 · score 0.02
If I could have traveled with Sabinus, I would have spoken to you in person rather than writing -- that's how badly I want to rescue the man from this storm. But since I'm held here by various obligations, I've taken the next best course and am writing instead. I would ask you, for the sake of both justice and our frie …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.02
To Eutherius. (358/359) It pleases me more than winning a province myself that this has happened under your governorship. I congratulate Caesarius on his character and on his reputation -- which grows greater by your endorsement -- and above all I congratulate him on his sons. For there is in those young men such devot …
libanius · c. 320 · score 0.01
To Olympius. (359/360) I feel a mixture of joy and its opposite. That Priscianus's fortunes are advancing is a festival for me. But being separated from the man who, in his devotion to my interests, imitates my own uncle -- that is no light matter. But it was only fitting that not only the best of doctors but also the …
libanius · c. 373 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (361 AD) Hear what the bearer of this letter says: he accuses the negligent servants and asks you to correct what has gone wrong. A malicious spirit has seized this business and begrudges the young man his success. But, my good man, as the verse says, yield not to difficulty, not even before a god — in Zeu …
libanius · c. 333 · score 0.01
To Euphemius. (358) What is one to make of this? Is it folly, bad fortune, or the solution to a riddle? That famous Antoninus, who gave up his patrimony to those who claimed to be in need -- or rather gave up nothing to them, for there was nothing -- has been forced to take up the grain supply again. And you endured wr …
libanius · c. 344 · score 0.01
To Alypius. (358) On account of the greatness of your office I count you blessed; on account of the virtue with which you govern I commend you. I say this is a credit to our city, from which you have your knowledge of governing, since rhetoric comes from her, and an honor to the city that taught you is the student who …
libanius · c. 342 · score 0.01
To Alexander. (361?) Pray that many people travel through Bithynia, for then you will have many to sing your praises. Everyone who passes through comes away carrying a sense of wonder at your administration. Elpidius, who left our ranks -- or rather, our chorus, for he sang with us but has now joined a different chorus …
libanius · c. 387 · score 0.01
To Maximus. (362) Everything about you is fine, beginning with your very appearance — or rather, beginning from your very soul. For just now, as we were hearing reports of beauty, the beauty of your letter arrived, far more radiant than what has so often come from Armenia. The bearer was your predecessor, a noble man w …
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. 390 · score 0.01
To Maximus. (363) Sufficient reward for me is that Hyperechius is the sort of man to be declared, while you are still living, master of the share of your estate that was rightfully his. He is an ornament to you and a refuge to his brothers — bearing their boldness gently and helping them through the honor of his nature …
libanius · c. 343 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (355) Hyperechius will see Seleucia in the finest way possible, having the best of men to look upon there. But we, it seems, have become slaves to...
libanius · c. 341 · score 0.01
To Gerontius. (361) When you took on the governorship of Egypt, I took on the obligation of writing to you about my friends. They were bound to ask me for letters of introduction, and I could offer no excuse for not providing them. First among those who asked and who now carries this letter is Heraclides -- a gentle ma …
libanius · c. 336 · score 0.01
To Andronicus. (360?) I have never prayed to hold power myself. Rather, I have always wished that you should hold office and that the better argument should prevail in your administration, while I live as a private citizen in my own station. But now I think I would not mind taking the governorship of Phoenicia myself - …
libanius · c. 347 · score 0.01
To Spectatus. (358 AD) Do you remember those conversations in which I urged you to do right by Honoratus? And what of your own promises — do they count for nothing? You nodded readily enough at the time, out of reverence for the sacred person of Cyrinus and some regard for me, yet I see no result from what we heard. I …
libanius · c. 387 · score 0.01
To Entrechius. (362) So it is not only in guardianship of the laws and the splendor of your offices that you follow your family — you have now inherited those men's devotion to me as well, or rather surpassed it. They, bound by ancient obligations and ties of shared study, were barely moved by many appeals, and even wh …
libanius · c. 340 · score 0.01
To Maximus. (358/359) This old man Heraclius has suffered many wrongs -- not on account of your administration (the Phocian War came before Demosthenes' career, as they say [meaning the wrongs preceded your tenure]), but at the hands of men who readily strangle anyone they choose. He comes having shortened his labor so …
libanius · c. 331 · score 0.01
To Ambrosius, Quaestor. (360) We were not ourselves when you were visiting. That terrible time [under Emperor Constantius II's restrictions on pagan practice] was driving us to distraction -- stripping away the greatest, finest, most precious things, some already gone, with the same threat hanging over the rest. Nor ar …
libanius · c. 375 · score 0.01
To Φουρτουνατιανῷ. (361) Your servants seem to be only half competent: they know perfectly well how to deliver your letters to the right people, but as for taking letters back to you from those same people, they wouldn't do it even under compulsion. I wrote back at once to your first letter and told them to collect my …
libanius · c. 323 · score 0.01
Your new governor is a friend of mine, and I'm confident his governorship will profit your province and bring credit to both him and me. You'll share in the general benefits along with everyone else, but you'll have an edge over the rest whenever he pursues your eloquence. What he loves is exactly what you have -- a fo …
libanius · c. 356 · score 0.01
You left a sting in me that keeps my memory of you alive. Both Clematius and I wept all the way to the gates as you departed. Then his grief was eased by the thought that he would see you again soon, while mine was eased by knowing you traveled with good hopes. I know you will put our fears to rest -- but please, let s …
libanius · c. 357 · score 0.01
It is most pleasant to see you, Photius, holding office, and scarcely less pleasant to hear of the virtue with which you govern. And there is nothing surprising in this: a pupil of the admirable Strategius [likely a mutual acquaintance and Photius's mentor] is bound to be admirable in office. Now, if the money were wit …