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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
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
… 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 0.02
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 0.02
Sidonius to his lord, Bishop Megethius. I deliberated long and hard, even though my spirit was stirred by affection and the eagerness to comply, over whether I should send you the little formal pieces I composed, as you requested. In the end, the view that I ought to obey you won out. So I have sent what you asked for …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Accordingly, in Avienus the rapid accumulation of honors was noted as pleasant, in Basilius their slow but steady growth as impressive. Both, to be sure, whenever they left their houses, were hemmed in by a crowd of clients going before, following behind, and pressing all around. But the hopes and ambitions of their re …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
I shall provide access by securing your admission, comfort by attending your recitation, and support by championing your cause. If you trust the voice of experience, much serious business will be advanced for you by this performance." I obeyed his instructions. He did not withdraw his support from the task he had impos …
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
Sidonius to his dear Heronius, greetings. 1. After the wedding of the patrician Ricimer -- that is, after the resources of both empires had been squandered on the celebration -- serious public business was at last resumed, opening the door and field for the conduct of affairs. Meanwhile I was graciously received in the …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
To Secundinus. For a long time now we have been reading your work with admiration and praise — you who are most at home in hexameters. Your subjects were always delightful, whether you were describing the wedding torches of the marriage chamber or beasts pierced by royal spear-thrusts. But in the triple trochaic hendec …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his lord, Bishop Leontius. Though you have given no encouragement to the beginnings of my vocation, nor watered the thirst of my lingering secular ignorance with any shower of heavenly teaching, I am nevertheless not so forgetful of my own position as to presume that you owe me any equal exchange of courtes …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 477 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Leo, greetings. 1. The Magnificent Hesperius, jewel of friends and of letters, when he recently returned from the city of Toulouse, said that you had directed me to turn my attention from the now-completed books of letters to the pen of history. With the deepest reverence and the deepest affection, …
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 His Dear Constantius, greetings. Diu praecipis, domine maior, summa suadendi authority, sicuti es in his quae deliberabuntur consiliosissimus, ut, if quae litterae paulo politiores varia occasione fluxerunt, prout eas causa persona tempus elicuit, omnes retractatis exemplaribus enucleatisque uno volumine in …
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. 457 · score 0.01
There, as you held forth midway between the rules of spiritual discourse and the conventions of the forum -- being most learned in both disciplines -- we crowded round you with senses uplifted and ears bent, finding you all too brief for our desire even as you had fully satisfied our judgment. 6. For these reasons I ha …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
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 0.01
To Arbogastes [count of Trier, a descendant of the Frankish general Arbogastes who served under Theodosius I; one of the last Roman officials on the Rhine frontier]. Your friend Eminentius, my honored elder, delivered to me the letter you composed — a letter brimming with the triple grace of learning. The first of thes …
faustus_riez · c. 469 · score 0.01
Sidonius, bishop, to the most blessed and holy Faustus. I have read your letter three times. Once for pleasure, once for instruction, and once to try to understand how you achieve certain effects that I find myself unable to replicate — not that I would try, since imitation of a distinctive style is always recognizable …
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
… 461]. A friend had asked me to come, and someone produced a book by Petrus, the imperial secretary. I dashed off a poem on the spot — as did my table companions Domnulus, Severianus, and Lampridius, each of us drawing a different meter by lot so that no one would suffer the embarrassment of direct comparison.
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 457 · score 0.01
Therefore to compose letters of any polish is either untimely to ask of me or impudent for me to attempt; letters that are either witty in humor or elegant in style belong to the fortunate. Indeed, there is a certain barbarism of character in cheerful speech coming from an afflicted soul. 4. Rather, I beg you to endow …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
Sidonius to his dear Namatius, greetings. 1. The dictator Julius Caesar, who they say administered military affairs with greater generalship than any other, was claimed in turn by the rival pursuits of writing and reading. And though in the person of this one man the military and oratorical sciences competed for primac …
sidonius_apollinaris · c. 467 · score 0.01
I therefore suspect, my lord bishop, that this overflowing and indescribable eloquence has made you — if I may say so — rather proud. But though you shine with the splendor of both a clear conscience and a supremely well-ordered style, you should not on that account avoid our judgment — we who praise good writing even …