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sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius To The Lord Pope Euphronius, greetings. Albiso antistes Proculusque levites, ideo to us morum magistri pronuntiandi, quia vestri merentur esse discipuli, the letters detulerunt, quarum me sacrosancto donastis affectu; quae tamen litterae plurimum to us honoris, plus oneris imponunt. unde et ipsarum sic benedic …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
But if verses devoid of ease and happiness cannot win approval, you too will find nothing pleasing on the page I append below. [The poem that follows describes the barbarian peoples gathered at the court of Euric in Bordeaux:] Why do you try to rouse the Muses now, Lampridius, glory of our poetry, and force me to compo …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sought by all, no ambition touches you; the honor thrust upon you is a burden. You flee the clamor of Rome and Constantinople, the broken walls of arrow-scattering Titus [Jerusalem]. The walls of Alexandria and Antioch do not hold you; you scorn the Carthaginian roofs of Dido. You disdain the populous marshlands of Rav …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Agroecius, greetings. 1. I have come to Bourges [Bituriges] at the request of the citizens. The reason for this summons was the tottering state of the church, which, recently widowed of its supreme pontiff, had sounded a kind of trumpet call for candidates from both the clerical and lay orde …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
4. For just as nothing becomes a new bride less than a more beautiful bridesmaid, and just as if you dress in white, any dark person looks blacker still, so my work -- such as it is -- surrounded by the more powerful trumpets, is reduced to a worthless straw, which is pronounced the more contemptible for being placed i …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
To the Lord Bishop Lupus [Lupus of Troyes, one of the most revered bishops of fifth-century Gaul]. The man Gallus — now an honorable man, since he obeyed your command to return to his wife without delay — carries my respectful letter to you and brings back the results of yours. When the page you had sent was opened for …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
After this proof of heavenly patronage, I was received in a lodging we had hired, and even now, writing these lines while reclining, I am giving a little time to rest. 10. I have not yet presented myself at the turbulent doors of the emperor and his court. For I arrived just in time for the wedding of the patrician Ric …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
My situation is entirely different. Exile is my grief, old books my only resource. My profession demands humility, my temperament seeks obscurity, and my mediocrity guarantees it. What little hope I have is invested in the future, not the present. Laziness — and illness too — have finally become dear to my heart. No pr …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
For the sake of the hope of this glorious peace, we tore herbs from the cracks in the city walls for food, often poisoned by unfamiliar plants whose undistinguished leaves and green juices were gathered by hands as pale as famine itself. And for all these proofs of devotion, we are told that our people have been sacrif …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
When daylight revealed that their clumsy fraud had exposed their losses, they finally undertook proper funeral rites in the open — concealing their disaster by speed no better than they had concealed it by deception. They did not even give the bones a proper mound of turf; the unwashed dead received neither clean garme …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Leo. The distinguished Hesperius — that jewel among friends and men of letters — recently returned from Toulouse and told me that you want me to put aside my letter-writing, now that those books are finished, and turn my pen to history. I embrace this judgment with the deepest respect and the warmest affection. Afte …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his friend Sagittarius. The distinguished Proiectus — noble in his own household, conspicuous for his father and uncle of the rank of Spectabilis, and for a grandfather who was an outstanding bishop — eagerly seeks admission into the circle of your friendships, unless you refuse him. Though the splendor of …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Their entire battle line withdrew at once to the ridge of a steep hill; though they had been pressing the siege, the moment they saw you they refused to form up for battle. Meanwhile, you cut down their best fighters — men whose courage, not cowardice, had placed them at the rear — and without losing a single one of yo …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To my brother Volusianus. You command me, dear brother — by the law of friendship, which it is sinful to violate — to put my long-idle fingers back on the anvil of my old workshop and inscribe a funeral poem in mournful verse on the tomb of the saintly Abraham, who has departed this life. I will obey your instructions …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Secundus [Sidonius's kinsman, since they share the same grandfather/great-uncle]. Yesterday — the grief of it! — profane hands nearly violated the tomb of my grandfather and your great-grandfather. The cemetery has long been so packed with cremated remains and buried corpses that for some time no fresh grave could b …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
They were called and admitted. The parties, as is customary, took their positions on opposite sides. The former prefects were offered the right to sit before the opening of the case. Arvandus, with his characteristic unlucky impudence, strode forward and virtually thrust himself into the very laps of the judges. Ferreo …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 480 · score 0.01
After the long progress of years and labors, he became archdeacon -- in which rank or ministry he was held for a long time on account of his industry, unable to be advanced in dignity precisely so that he might not be released from his authority.) Nevertheless, this man, now already a priest of the second order, amid t …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 456 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his lord Bishop Euphronius, greetings. 1. Bishop Albiso and the deacon Proculus -- whom I must call our masters in conduct, since they deserve to be counted your disciples -- have delivered the letter with which you honored me in sacred affection. Yet that letter lays upon me far more of a burden than an ho …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Vincentius, greetings. 1. The fate of Arvandus [the Praetorian Prefect of Gaul, tried for treason in Rome around 469 AD] distresses me, and I do not pretend otherwise. For this too redounds to the emperor's credit: that one may openly love even those condemned to death. I was a friend to the man, a …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
the commissioned letter might neither be denied to friendship when written, nor subjected to your censure when read. 2. Let us put that aside. You command that another copious page be sent. The will to obey is present in one eager to comply, but the occasions are lacking. For a mere greeting, unless some business of ac …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius To His Dear Constantius, greetings. Salutat the people Arvernus, cuius parva tuguria magnus hospes implesti, non ambitiosus comitatu sed ambiendus affectu. deus bone, quod gaudium fuit laboriosis, when tu sanctum pedem semirutis moenibus intulisti! quam tu ab omni ordine sexu aetate stipatissimus ambiebare! qu …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 464 · score 0.01
You bind up their slick arguments in chains of categorical logic, in the manner of skilled physicians who, when reason requires, prepare even from the serpent a remedy against its poison. 16. But all this belongs in our time only to the contemplation of your conscience and the power of your learning. For who could foll …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 480 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Domnulus, greetings. 1. I cannot delay sharing with you this great joy, for you are surely eager to learn what our father in Christ and bishop, Patiens, accomplished at Chalon-sur-Saone in the manner of his accustomed piety and constancy. When he had arrived at the aforementioned city, attended in …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Hesperius, greetings. 1. I love in you your love of letters, and I strive to honor with the fullest praise the generosity of a dedication through which you commend not only your own beginnings but our own efforts as well. For when we see the talents of the younger generation growing up in this very …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
We told him what we and our closest friends thought safe. We urged him to admit nothing as trivial if anything were demanded by his enemies, however slight their charge might seem -- that even this pretense of unconcern would be most perilous, making it easier for them to shake loose his careless confidence through cro …