Resultados25 letters/passages
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.02
To Anatolius. (361 AD) What outrages have been committed — not on the Danube near the Scythians, nor at the ends of Libya, but in Phoenicia, the most civilized region of all, where laws exist, governors are in charge, and an emperor lives under arms to keep all violence at bay. A certain Lucianus, a man holding some mi …
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. 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. 391 · score 0.02
To Acacius. (363 AD) That famous and great city, where you both distinguished yourself and were honored, has been shaken by many evils — battling famine and thought by the emperor to be criminal. We spent our time as supplicants but could not escape the accusation. You, it seems, were fortunate: you enjoyed the city's …
libanius · c. 373 · score 0.02
To Priscianus. (361 AD) While others asked those arriving from there all manner of questions — "What of the Arcadians? What of the Amphictyonians? Where has Philip gone?" — I, who always have your affairs at heart, had only one thing I wanted to know: whether the magnitude of the moment put your virtue to the test. Whi …
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. 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. 390 · score 0.01
To Demetrius. (363 AD) This is what good neighbors do — they help those living nearby in times of misfortune. And you have fulfilled the proverb in both ways, adding deeds to kind words. For us the famine has been a double evil: the famine itself and the emperor's anger against the city on account of it. If some god do …
libanius · c. 339 · score 0.01
To Olympius. (358) Your sons will receive every just treatment from us -- first, on the very ground of justice and the obligation so to act for anyone who is not wicked, and second...
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. 374 · score 0.01
To Apolinarius and Gemellus. (361 AD) What wrongs Eustathius has suffered and comes to seek justice for, you will learn from my letter to your father. You must show that you both hate the perpetrator and pity the victim, and demonstrate what kind of governors you would be through your actions while living with your fat …
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. 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. 345 · score 0.01
To Anatolius. (358) Spectatus — who loves you above all others (whether he is right to do so I cannot say, but that he loves you intensely I know perfectly well) — has returned to us in triumph from the embassy. And thanks to his tongue, we Greeks were not bested by barbarians. Shall I describe the eloquence with which …
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. 332 · score 0.01
To Modestus. (360) While we were lamenting what has happened to Procopius and praying for his darkness to be lifted, the Cilicians -- the very people who received so many kindnesses from him -- repaid his generosity like Agamemnon [who took what was not his]. Like wolves falling on unguarded sheep, they have plundered …
libanius · c. 374 · score 0.01
She fought back, and her character made her display strength beyond her nature. At this point Lucianus drew a sword — O gods! She welcomed only this: that she might die before any disgrace. When he realized she was ready to give up her very life, he called slaves and ordered them to bring ropes. She was bound on a bed …
libanius · c. 331 · score 0.01
To Demetrius. (359/60) Your fine friend Bacchius has been separated from you and has not spent nearly enough time with me. The reason: an ulcer kept him at home, and my professional duties -- you know how demanding they are -- prevented me from being free. On top of that, worries have piled up because of those who have …
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. 386 · score 0.01
To the same. (362 AD) Orion became my friend in earlier times, when his mother brought us together. He seemed a decent man — one who blamed rather than imitated those who abused their power. I also heard from the people of Bostra that he neither made war on the temples nor drove out priests, and that he relieved many p …
libanius · c. 347 · score 0.01
To Bassus. (358 AD) You took from us something very great and gave something in return — not small, I would not say that, but not equal to what you took. For by summoning your son you sent us a letter. His presence meant as much to me as your own company, and though the letter was welcome, it was second to him. May Cal …
libanius · c. 340 · score 0.01
To Dulcitius. (361?) You hold a great office. Rumor predicted this and did not lie. But you govern others, not us -- a point on which we might complain to Fortune. Still, there is some consolation even in this: instead of us, our fathers are being looked after, which means we are not entirely without our share of the b …
libanius · c. 387 · score 0.01
To Gaianus. (362) The Phoenicians enjoy the blessings, while I dream of Phoenician blessings: councilors honored, populace cheerful, merchants not wronged, farmers not despised, orators flowing as never before, consorting with Demosthenes and knowing that justice resides with a man brimming with Demosthenes. Seeing the …
libanius · c. 315 · score 0.01
To Priscianus. (353) Dionysius did not trample on his oath -- he is returning to you with the letters, just as he swore he would do. But when you call our city "blessed" -- you who were too afraid to live here -- you are having us on. If you truly thought her so fortunate, why did you refuse to share in that good fortu …