Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 331 · score 0.02
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. 358 · score 0.02
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. 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. 373 · score 0.02
To Demetrius. (361 AD) Harvest season is already upon us here, and it is autumn. Let us give the farmers their freedom, if you agree. Your advice about the fields I welcome and accept. We'll try both to hold onto what we have and to acquire more.
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.02
To Italicianus. (361) The profit is yours, if you are seen to benefit the household of Bassiana, a woman who deserves every fine word I can say about her. See to it, then, that you seize the opportunity and prove more generous to Rufinus than he himself would ask. He has come to inspect their land in Asia and to set ri …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.02
To Gorgonius. (355/56) The moment has come for you to do a service to all of Hellenism. Himerius makes his living by teaching, his place of instruction is Athens, and his estates are in Armenia. The man deserves the highest honor but receives not even a small one — certain Lycurguses have attacked and are driving out D …
libanius · c. 386 · score 0.01
To Diophantus. (362 AD) What you asked for has been accomplished. Use your own judgment and your grandfather's money in your grandfather's city. This was carried out while many people scrambled to claim the service, each wanting the deed credited to himself. As a result, even I learned it was finished before I could co …
libanius · c. 314 · score 0.01
On all accounts I was pleased to see Ablavius but principally because he brought me a letter from you. For sooner than blame you I should detest myself; such has been your attention to the promotion of my interest, amidst this tedious war, which you could not have been if anyone had spoken to my disadvantage. In seemin …
libanius · c. 370 · score 0.01
To Clematius. (357 AD) This man Firmus is a concern to my mother, and a concern to me on her account. It would be reasonable for you too to take an interest in him, for both our sakes. Firmus is wellborn but poor, having been reduced to poverty by the troubles in Palestine. He bears his poverty with dignity and has no …
libanius · c. 316 · score 0.01
To Polychronius. (359/60) What excuse can you offer for your silence? Slowness of mind? Who is sharper than you? A lack of words? You, who teach great matters so clearly? Why, then, are you voiceless? You will not say? Then hear it from me. You cut our provisions and separated the barley from the wheat, and having wron …
libanius · c. 329 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (359/60) A fine set of rewards awaits governors, it seems -- if they are to wear themselves out, neglect their own interests while tending to public affairs, and then receive in return insult, condemnation, disgrace, and danger. This is what has now engulfed Tryphonianus -- a man you never dishonored, a ma …
libanius · c. 321 · score 0.01
To Aetius. (359) I did not advise you to leave your homeland, your home, your family, and your prospects -- nor would I ever give such advice to a citizen who contributes so much to so great a city. But since a counselor more persuasive than I appeared, and something seemed to you more important than your own dignity, …
libanius · c. 391 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (363) Brachinus is a veteran of that campaign through which you accomplished so many great things in our region. He later became a friend of mine, and I commend the man. I would like his brother-in-law Basilides to be able to report to us that you received him kindly. He has come to look after certain prop …
libanius · c. 328 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (358-361) Those colts of mine, whom I have led from the meadows of the Muses and given to you -- some were summoned by you, others came uninvited. I congratulate the first group on the honor you have shown them, and the second on their own longing for you. For by running to you of their own accord, they sh …
libanius · c. 341 · score 0.01
To Eusebius. (359/360) We take refuge at the same Athena on the same kind of business. Recently you snatched a young man from the fire for us, enduring labors such as a man would undertake for his own son. The same labors and the same eagerness are needed now -- or rather, much more. For this Agroicius is no different …
libanius · c. 327 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (359/60) Miccalus comes to you from Olympius, from home to home -- and from one brother to another, in every real sense. That is why he seems to me to have looked past the wealth available in Paeonia and the luxuries that come with injustice, believing that being in your company will be sweeter to him th …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (361 AD) Herodianus has been granted a short leave by us, so that he may go and see the small piece of land he owns. But he needs even the modest income from Phoenicia, since what he earns from his craft [rhetoric] is even smaller. For the rise of those who had no right to greatness has diminished the for …
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. 345 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (358) Spectatus — who loves you above all others (whether he is right to do so I cannot say, but that he loves you intensely I know perfectly well) — has returned to us in triumph from the embassy. And thanks to his tongue, we Greeks were not bested by barbarians. Shall I describe the eloquence with which …
libanius · c. 332 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (360) While we were lamenting what has happened to Procopius and praying for his darkness to be lifted, the Cilicians -- the very people who received so many kindnesses from him -- repaid his generosity like Agamemnon [who took what was not his]. Like wolves falling on unguarded sheep, they have plundered …
libanius · c. 385 · score 0.01
To Bacchius. (362 AD) Tend to the sacred rites, my dear Bacchius — with abundant sacrifices, precision in the mysteries, and the restoration of what has fallen. You must show piety toward the gods, gratify the emperor, and make your homeland more beautiful. But do grant favors too, even as you guard your zeal. The Grac …
libanius · c. 372 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (361 AD) If I knew how to revolve around the doors of the powerful, I would myself be one of the powerful. As it is, I am weak — but not in the least ashamed. Singing is enough for me, as it is for the nightingale. I didn't think I should send you many letters, given how much business you handle and how ma …
libanius · c. 316 · score 0.01
To Auxentius. (358) I was about to scold you for your fondness for the countryside, convinced that you could have no excuse for rushing off there. But then I received the fruit you sent, and when I saw what your trees produce, I completely changed my mind. Now I am amazed that you can tear yourself away from such land …
libanius · c. 332 · score 0.01
To Andronicus, a general. (360) Sebon is a Cretan, and he is related by blood to the people you govern -- for he descends from those men born to Zeus after the god carried Europa from Phoenicia across the sea to Crete. He is brimming with learning, as you will discover yourself when you meet and test him, and his educa …
libanius · c. 376 · score 0.01
To Italicianus. (361 AD) We remain the same in both our affection and our admiration. But you seem — well, I will not say it yet, though the facts press me to say something rather harsh. Let that wait for now. As proof that we have not changed, take the fact that we are asking favors, just as before — favors that will …