Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 348 · score 0.02
… uly yours alone, sprung from no precedent. While others, the moment they attain imperial power, take on a love of money — some beginning to crave what they never desired before, others intensifying a passion already dwelling in them — you alone, upon entering into power, gave away your patrimony to your companions: a h …
libanius · c. 366 · score 0.02
"What great thing?" I asked. Strategius then said: "When he was about to take leave of the emperor, after many fine exchanges, he added: 'Your Majesty, no one's rank will shield them from punishment for wrongdoing. Whether it is a judge or a military commander who breaks the law, I will not tolerate neglect.'" He said …
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. 339 · score 0.02
To Andronicus. (361) I was glad that Hermeias and his family, having obtained justice, both praise you themselves and lead the rhetors, who at that time wrote on their behalf, to even greater...
libanius · c. 340 · score 0.02
To the same person. (361?) The man who makes my lecture hall a fine theater is the rhetor Megethius. He shouts with the volume of fifty men, and with that voice he has often stopped a speaker in his tracks. A warm listener who interrupts the flow of a speech with cries of wonder is, I think, a great thing for any speak …
libanius · c. 342 · score 0.02
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. 354 · score 0.01
Do you realize that it speaks well of you that men of letters like me dare to write to a man of arms like you? This is proof, I think, that you are fierce toward enemies but gentle with your own people -- exactly as the old saying goes: the man in your position must be good at both. Other generals we see only from a di …
libanius · c. 355 · score 0.01
The usual news has reached us: the emperor has won a victory and a barbarian nation has been destroyed. We savor this pleasure while hoping for the next. And the next is this: a letter from you bearing an account of the battle and a tribute to the victor. So announce the news to your eager audience, finest and most 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. 338 · score 0.01
To Demetrius. (361) Your letters are themselves a festival -- as is everything that arrives from you. And you did well to find the right moment for the gifts: this time you truly sent them to us, whereas before they would have fallen into the hands of those who were looking to seize things. Euphemius will give you the …
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. 328 · score 0.01
To the same person. (358) Do you really think Andronicus is unaware of your merit, or that he would not consider it to his own advantage to safeguard your interests? That is not the case at all. Your fame has reached us even here, and he knows how to admire good governors. Still, since you ask me to, I am writing to a …
libanius · c. 379 · score 0.01
To Auxentios. (361/62) Even when you were staging those remarkable spectacles, purchasing glory with money, I considered it an honor to be associated with you. And now I delight in the honor conveyed by the skin, and though I was not present to witness the beasts' exploits, I can judge from the hide what the leopard di …
libanius · c. 355 · score 0.01
I have long considered you a good man, based on Themistocles's friendship with you -- that man would never have befriended anyone who was not thoroughly excellent. During my earlier stay here I had brief contact with you but could not develop it further, since my body was ailing and you were deeply occupied with the gr …
libanius · c. 328 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (359/60) So you will not collect taxes twice, yet you keep asking for letters on matters about which you already have correspondence. Miccalus already carried a letter about the poverty here and there. But that is not enough for you. Your wife's brother, who is dearest to me, burst in yesterday where I w …
libanius · c. 355 · score 0.01
I hear you praise me and never stop doing so, and it seems to me you are doing what is both just and in your own interest. A man who says he studied under the best teacher both pays the teacher his due and ennobles himself by showing what springs he has drunk from. But the praise should come with letters too, so that n …
libanius · c. 345 · score 0.01
… ivate citizens alone. For your deluge of dispatches herds many a man toward the imperial feeding-trough.
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
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. 348 · score 0.01
To Julian. (358 AD) You have won a double victory — one in arms, the other in letters — and you have raised a trophy from the barbarians and another from me, your friend. This second trophy is a sweet one for the vanquished. Every father prays to be surpassed by his children, and you, having received from me the paths …
libanius · c. 330 · score 0.01
To Eusebius and Faustus. (360) If we did not trust you completely, we would not have sent a servant and a ship to Sinope. We are well aware that you are the city -- that if you lend your support, everything runs before a fair wind, and if you oppose... but I will write nothing ominous in a letter. Noble friends, now is …
libanius · c. 379 · score 0.01
To Celsus. (362) Right from the starting line you showed yourself worthy of our hopes. You found the council of Alexandria reduced to one man — and that man, I hear, was lame — and within two days you extended the number to fifteen, using no force at all, only brilliant expectations. By showing the councilors they woul …
libanius · c. 369 · score 0.01
To Anatolios. (357 AD) What am I to do? You say you want complaints, but everything you do deserves praise. You are harsh toward anyone who praises you, yet you give no grounds for blame. How much praise, then, do you think this deserves? Dometios has been called to share in your responsibilities — a man hardly useless …
libanius · c. 389 · score 0.01
But for now, cross the rivers and fall upon the archers, more fearsome than any river. After that you will deliberate on the matters you say you will deliberate upon. And do not weary of cheering the absent one by whatever means you have. For I will write, calling forth your letters even from the midst of battle, trust …
libanius · c. 339 · score 0.01
To Ecdicius. (360) We are not unaware of the principles with which you approach your office, and knowing them we do what friends naturally do in such circumstances. I congratulate Maximus on the honor he has received from you, and I have hopes that his son, too, will enjoy some measure of your goodwill. I had wanted th …