Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 331 · score 0.02
To Ambrosius, Quaestor. (360) We were not ourselves when you were visiting. That terrible time [under Emperor Constantius II's restrictions on pagan practice] was driving us to distraction -- stripping away the greatest, finest, most precious things, some already gone, with the same threat hanging over the rest. Nor ar …
libanius · c. 360 · score 0.02
To Barbation. (356 AD) I wrote to you at the start of winter. Clematius was the one who took the letter — a man who spent the entire summer here and passed all his time singing your praises. Not that he was teaching us anything we didn't already know, unless the Cretan needs lessons about the sea. But there was somethi …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.02
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. 334 · score 0.02
To Eusebius. (360) Let the wild beasts be preserved, let no one slaughter them, let someone provide the spectacle without that, and let the master not be lord of his own property. Such is the letter that has come from the prefect. And we, who used to admire the man for his other qualities, are astonished at this novelt …
libanius · c. 343 · score 0.02
To Themistius. (361?) You used to chafe at your education, thinking you were wasting your effort on a useless pursuit. But it turns out you were going to need those weapons after all...
libanius · c. 337 · score 0.02
To Caesarius. (358/359) Your letter has imitated the Spartans. They too arrived at Marathon after the battle was over, though they had resolved to help [a famous story from Herodotus]. Just so, your letter urges me to look after your sons -- young men who already have enough standing here to provide that kind of servic …
libanius · c. 358 · score 0.01
To Acacius. (358/59) I too am one of those overwhelmed by that great wave. Aristaenetus is dead -- O Zeus -- and the second blow has all but destroyed me, since the divine power did not even spare the head of Hierocles. Because of all this, I have fallen silent and will remain so, at least in public gatherings. But tho …
libanius · c. 361 · score 0.01
To Seleucus. (356 AD) By admitting your wrong in not writing, you have stripped yourself of the right to accuse. For I now belong to the party of those who retaliate, not those who offend — since retaliation is sanctioned by law. Besides, my silence was precisely what would move you to write. Had I written to you while …
libanius · c. 316 · score 0.01
To Hygieinus. (358/59) I did not forget the agreement we had about exchanging letters. I was prevented from keeping it by a host of troubles. First, my head laid me low with a flood of dizzy spells, and neither I nor my doctors could feel any confidence. Then the affliction moved down to my stomach, producing discharge …
libanius · c. 337 · score 0.01
To Iphicrates. (358/359) The sons of Caesarius did not make a bad decision in the first place when they entrusted themselves to a rhetorician, and now -- O Muses! -- may they find something at my school that will remind them of a certain proverb. What proverb that is, you probably see, but it would not be modest for me …
libanius · c. 316 · score 0.01
To Polychronius. (359/60) What excuse can you offer for your silence? Slowness of mind? Who is sharper than you? A lack of words? You, who teach great matters so clearly? Why, then, are you voiceless? You will not say? Then hear it from me. You cut our provisions and separated the barley from the wheat, and having wron …
libanius · c. 377 · score 0.01
To Italicianus. (361 AD) If I did not know you as a man who understands friendship — one who has often worried and labored so that some good might come to his companions — I would be quite afraid that the volume of my letters might annoy you. But since you yourself are among those who praise Achilles [for loyalty to fr …
libanius · c. 330 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (359/60) You know Gaudentius, that excellent teacher. A farmer has come to him for refuge, he has come to me, and I now come to you. Surely what you do every day you will do now as well: put a stop to injustice. The man who needs help is named Antonius; he farms near Cyrrhus. The one wronging him -- if i …
basil_caesarea · c. 377 · score 0.01
Libanius to Basil. Will you never stop filling this sacred home of the Muses with Cappadocians — people who reek of frost and snow and all of Cappadocia's finest qualities? They have nearly made a Cappadocian out of me as well, forever chanting their "I salute you." I will endure it, since Basil commands it. But know t …
libanius · c. 377 · score 0.01
To Ulpianus. (~361 AD) What people on shore feel when they watch others sailing through a storm — imagining the waves crashing against their own bodies — that is what we have felt as we consider the times in which you have assumed your office. We are full of anxiety and turmoil, as though we ourselves were beset on eve …
libanius · c. 328 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (358-361) Those colts of mine, whom I have led from the meadows of the Muses and given to you -- some were summoned by you, others came uninvited. I congratulate the first group on the honor you have shown them, and the second on their own longing for you. For by running to you of their own accord, they sh …
libanius · c. 341 · score 0.01
To Eusebius. (359/360) We take refuge at the same Athena on the same kind of business. Recently you snatched a young man from the fire for us, enduring labors such as a man would undertake for his own son. The same labors and the same eagerness are needed now -- or rather, much more. For this Agroicius is no different …
libanius · c. 381 · score 0.01
The governor took part in your festival in the same way I did -- he missed nothing I had heard. When he learned about the armor, the sacrifices, the expense, and the splendor that ran through everything, he was so delighted -- rejoicing with both the priest and the city -- that he said the emperor himself would hear of …
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. 335 · score 0.01
To the assessors of Elpidius. (360) Friends, stand by us! You will find many such appeals in the poets, and those who hear them are generally...
libanius · c. 342 · score 0.01
To Gerontius. (361?) Sebon is of the noblest Cretan stock, most distinguished among the Greeks, and dearest of men to us. Runaway slaves have... and a refuge sufficient...
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (361) Even if your office and the demands pulling you from every direction have driven Plato from your hands, Plato still dwells in your soul — which is why you bring us such fine stories and speeches. But look: you and Mikkalos have become one again, Hephaestus having wrought this upon you. And a crowd …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (361 AD) Herodianus has been granted a short leave by us, so that he may go and see the small piece of land he owns. But he needs even the modest income from Phoenicia, since what he earns from his craft [rhetoric] is even smaller. For the rise of those who had no right to greatness has diminished the for …
libanius · c. 350 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (358/59) Many are those who announce that you are coming, but we do not yet see the deed. So turn this shadow of pleasure into true joy for us. If the affairs along the Euphrates needed attention, they have been adequately tended to. If it was necessary for people to learn who you are under a blazing sun, …
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 …