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sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
And the illustrious Gratianensis added: "A wide field for satirists is opened by this quarrel." At this the emperor turned his head toward me: "I hear, Count Sidonius, that you write satire." "And I, my lord," I replied, "hear the same thing." Then he said, but laughing: "Spare us at least." "But I," I said, "spare mys …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Drunk on new wealth — and here you see their character even in small things — their very extravagance in spending betrays their inexperience in possessing. They cheerfully appear armed at dinner parties, in white at funerals, in furs at church, in black at weddings, and in beaver-skin cloaks at religious processions. N …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
To Audax. Where, I would like to know, are they hiding now — those men who used to congratulate themselves on their heaped-up wealth and their piles of tarnished silver? Where, too, is the presumption of those who puffed themselves up against the promise of younger men on the sole ground of their seniority? Where are t …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Sidonius To His Dear Philimatius, greetings. I nunc, et legibus me ambitus interrogatum senatu move, cur adipiscendae dignitati hereditariae curis pervigilibus incumbam; cui pater socer, avus proavus praefecturis urbanis praetorianisque, magisteriis Palatinis militaribusque micuerunt. et ecce Gaudentius meus, hactenus …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
… inst you can in no way be proved. At the same time, it is deeply unjust for the imperial judgment to lend its weight to private grudges, so that an innocent and carefree nobility is endangered on account of certain hatreds by an uncertain charge." When I bowed my head respectfully in thanks for this verdict, the faces …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.02
Beyond them lay Paeonius, and then Athenius, a man seasoned by the vicissitudes of lawsuits and politics. After him came Gratianensis, a man who should be kept well apart from any hint of infamy, who though he ranked below Severinus in honor surpassed him in favor. I reclined last, where the left margin of the emperor' …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
… il, sent a letter ahead announcing his coming. In it he reports that he carries imperial letters patent granting the patriciate to your brother Ecdicius as well — whose honors bring you no less joy than my own. It comes quickly if you consider his youth, but very slowly if you consider his merits. For he long ago paid …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
For I know he would have said nothing about his own distinction, and you would have judged him not heartless but merely shy. As for me, I rejoice not so much in the insignia of rank — which you have been awaiting with all the more impatience for all the more freedom (though I rejoice greatly in these too) — as in the f …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
6. When Marcellian's conspiracy to seize the diadem was being hatched, Paeonius had set himself up as the standard-bearer for the noble young men in the faction -- still a newcomer even in old age -- until at last, thanks to his proven record of fortunate daring, the crack of a gaping interregnum shed a gleam of light …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius To His Dear Ecdicius, greetings. Duo nunc pariter mala sustinent Arverni tui. 'quaenam?' inquis. praesentiam Seronati et absentiam tuam. Seronati, inquam: de cuius ut primum etiam nomine loquar, sic mihi videtur quasi praescia futurorum lusisse fortuna, sicuti ex adverso maiores nostri proelia, quibus nihil es …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Eutropius, greetings. 1. I have long wanted to write to you, but now I am especially impelled to do so, since I am traveling to the city with Christ's blessing. My chief or sole reason for writing is to summon you from the depths of your domestic tranquility to take up the duties of the Palatine se …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
8. At this I marveled at the excessive pride of the one group and the excessive humility of the other, but refrained from asking the reasons. Then one of the factious crowd, planted for the purpose, came up to greet me. In the course of our conversation he said: "Do you see these people?" "I see them," I said, "and I w …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
… icus, Massa, Marcellus, Carus, Parthenius, Licinus, and Pallas [notorious Roman imperial freedmen and corrupt officials] would raise their hands in surrender at the comparison. These are the men who begrudge civilians their rest, soldiers their pay, couriers their expenses, merchants their markets, ambassadors their gi …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Pastor. Your absence from yesterday's civic assembly was noticed. The better sort assumed you stayed away deliberately, to avoid having the burden of the upcoming embassy placed on your shoulders. I congratulate you on living in such a way that you have to fear being chosen for such duties. I admire your competence, …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius To His Dear Petronius, greetings. Audio, quod lectitandis epistulis meis voluptuosam patientiam inpendas. magnum this est et litterarum viro convenientissimum, when studiis ipse maxumis polleas, ea in aliis etiam minima complecti. sed ex this ipso consummatissima tibi glory reponderatur; nam satis eminet by it …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius To The Lord Pope Graecus, greetings. Oneras, consummatissime pontificum, verecundiam meam, multifaria laude cumulando if quid stilo rusticante peraravero. atque would that reatu careat, quod apicum primore congressu quamquam circumscriptus, veritati resultantia tamen et diversa conexui; ignorantiae indeed meae …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Pannychius. You know that Seronatus [a corrupt Roman official who collaborated with the Visigoths] is returning to Toulouse — or if you do not know yet (and I believe you do not), learn it from these signs. Already Euanthius is hurrying ahead to Clausetia, assembling work-crews to clear whatever autumn leaves may ha …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To the Lord Bishop Patiens [Bishop of Lyon, celebrated for his extraordinary generosity during the famines that followed Gothic devastation]. I believe that the man who truly lives for his own good is the one who lives for the good of others — who, moved by compassion for the calamities and poverty of the faithful, per …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 475 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Pastor, greetings. 1. The fact that yesterday you were absent from the council meeting of the city is taken by the better part of the assembly to have been done deliberately. They suspected that you were taking care lest the burden of the forthcoming embassy be laid upon your shoulders. I congratul …
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
But — and this is the chief comfort of the afflicted — our Lucumo [the Burgundian king, compared to the Etruscan king Tarquin] is tempered by his Tanaquil [the queen, compared to Tarquin's wise wife], who has been wisely cleaning her husband's ears of the poisonous filth poured in by whisperers, using well-timed and wi …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To the Lord Bishop Censorius. The bearer of this letter is honored by the office of deacon. He fled with his family from the storm of Gothic raids and was carried to your territory, driven, as it were, by the very weight of his flight. On church land overseen by Your Holiness, this hungry newcomer sowed a small crop in …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Set aside for a little while those widely acclaimed speeches you compose in the voice of the king [Euric, King of the Visigoths], by which that illustrious ruler now strikes terror into the hearts of peoples beyond the sea, now seals a victor's treaty on favorable terms with the trembling barbarians along the Waal [riv …
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
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 …