Resultados21 letters/passages
gregory_great · c. 593 · score 0.02
Gregory to Maximus, Pretender at Salona. Even if a man's life were otherwise beyond reproach, the crime of canvassing for office is itself condemned by the strictest severity of the canons. We have been informed that you, having either obtained a fraudulent order from the most pious emperors or simply fabricated one, h …
pliny_younger · c. 107 · score 0.02
Remember, therefore, the past of each city, not that you may despise it for ceasing to be great - no, let there be no trace of haughtiness and disdain in your conduct. Do not be afraid that people will despise you for your kindness, for is any man with full military command and the fasces despised, unless he is craven- …
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.02
Gregory to Maximus, Bishop of Salona. Your ordination was flawed from the start, and you then compounded the problem through serious disobedience. Even so, I tempered the authority of the Apostolic See and never treated you as harshly as the situation warranted. But my displeasure lasted as long as it did because the w …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.02
Gregory to Maximus, pretender to the Church of Salona. Whenever something is reported to have been done contrary to church discipline, I cannot leave it unexamined without being guilty before God of negligence. It has come to my ears that you were ordained through simony. Many other accusations have been made against y …
pliny_younger · c. 107 · score 0.02
To Maximus. My affection for you is such that I feel compelled not to direct you - for you have no need of a director - but to strongly advise you to keep in strict remembrance certain points that you are well aware of, and to realise their truth even more than you now do. Bear in mind that you have been sent to the pr …
pliny_younger · c. 107 · score 0.02
Moreover, as you have often heard and read, it is much more disgraceful to lose a good reputation than to fail to win one. As I said at the outset, I want you to take these words as those of a friend who is advising and not directing you, although I do direct you also, for I have no fear - such is my affection for you …
pliny_younger · c. 100 · score 0.01
To Maximus. I think I am justified in asking you to grant to one of my friends a favour which I should certainly have offered to friends of yours, had I the same opportunity for conferring them as you have. Arrianus Maturus is the leading man in Altinum; and when I say that, I mean not that he is the richest man there …
leo_great · c. 455 · score 0.01
This faith is no novelty; it is the ancient apostolic teaching, received from the Fathers, tested by the Councils, and confirmed by the authority of the blessed Peter through his See. Let the memory of Nestorius and Eutyches serve as a warning to all who would tamper with the mystery of the Incarnation. The Son of God …
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.01
Gregory to Maximus, Bishop of Salona. Having received the letters of our brother and fellow bishop Marinianus, and with our secretary Castorius also having returned, we learn that Your Fraternity has given the fullest satisfaction regarding the matters that were in doubt. We return great thanks to Almighty God that eve …
pliny_younger · c. 107 · score 0.01
To Maximus. I have often advised you to publish at the earliest possible opportunity the speeches which you composed either in your defence or against Planta, * or, I should rather say, in your defence and against Planta, for so the subject-matter required. Now that I hear of his death, I do most earnestly beg and advi …
pliny_younger · c. 104 · score 0.01
To Maximus. What a joyful day this has been ! The prefect of the city called me in to assist him in hearing his cases, and I listened to two young men of the highest promise and conspicuous abilities pleading against each other. They were Fuscus Salinator and Ummidius Quadratus, a striking pair, who will prove not only …
gregory_great · c. 600 · score 0.01
Gregory to Maximus, Bishop of Salona. When our mutual friend the priest Veteranus arrived in Rome, he found me so weakened by gout that I could not personally answer your Fraternity's letters. Regarding the Slavic nation [the Slavs, who were pressing into the Balkans and threatening the Dalmatian coast], from which you …
pliny_younger · c. 100 · score 0.01
** Yet this disgraceful practice gets worse from day to day, in spite of the terms of opprobrium applied to it in both languages. Yesterday two of my own nomenclators † - young men, I admit, about the age of those who have just assumed the toga †† - were enticed off to join in the applause for three denarii apiece. Suc …
leo_great · c. 455 · score 0.01
Leo, Bishop of Rome, to Maximus, Bishop of Antioch, by the hand of Marian the presbyter and Olympius the deacon. I. The faith is the mean between the two extremes of Eutyches and Nestorius How deeply, beloved, you have at heart the most sacred unity of our common faith and the tranquil harmony of the Church's peace, th …
pliny_younger · c. 100 · score 0.01
To Maximus. Yes, you are quite right; my time is fully taken up by cases in the centumviral court, * but they give me more worry than pleasure, for most of them are of a minor and unimportant character. Only rarely does a case crop up that stands out, owing either to the distinguished position of the persons in the sui …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
Gregory to Hospiton, leader of the Barbaricini. I have been pleased to learn that you, among all the Barbaricini leaders, worship the true God while the rest remain devoted to stocks and stones. I give thanks to Almighty God for this, and I urge you to hold firm to the faith you have received. Show your neighbors by wo …
pliny_younger · c. 100 · score 0.01
Again the shouts came, again he stopped, and after a short period of quiet it began again for the third time. In the end he inquired who was speaking, and was told that it was Licinius. At that he discontinued his case, exclaiming: 'Centumviri, this is death to our profession.'" Indeed, it was beginning to go to the ba …
pliny_younger · c. 104 · score 0.01
To Maximus. You did quite right in promising a gladiatorial display to my clients at Verona, for they have long loved you, looked up to you, and honoured you. You took from that city your dearly loved and most estimable wife, and you owe to her memory some public work or festival, and a gladiatorial show is most suitab …
pliny_younger · c. 107 · score 0.01
To Maximus. When I have been pleading, it has often happened that the centumviri, after strictly preserving for a long time their judicial dignity and gravity, have suddenly leaped to their feet en masse and applauded me, as if they could not help themselves but were obliged to do so. I have often again left the senate …
pliny_younger · c. 107 · score 0.01
To Maximus. I have just been reminded by the illness of a friend of mine that we mortals are most virtuous when we are in bad health. For where is there a sick man who is tempted by either avarice or lust? He is no longer a slave to his passions; he does not grasp at distinctions ; he pays no heed to riches, and howeve …
pliny_younger · c. 107 · score 0.01
To Maximus. I find in study both delight and consolation. There is nothing in the world so pleasant as to give more pleasure than study can bestow, and there is no sorrow so grievous that it cannot alleviate. So while I have been sorely troubled by the illness of my wife and the ill-health of my household, some of whom …