The Life of Saint Epiphanius by Ennodius: A Translation with an Introduction and Commentary

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Catholic University of America Press, 1942 - 262 pagine

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Pagina 15 - Accordingly, just as painters get the likenesses in their portraits from the face and the expression of the eyes, wherein the character shows itself, but make very little account of the other parts of the body...
Pagina 211 - His et adversariorum cogitationes velut secum loquentium protrahimus (qui tamen ita demum a fide non abhorrent, si ea locutos finxerimus, quae cogitasse eos non sit absurdum), et nostros cum aliis sermones et aliorum inter se credibiliter introducimus, et suadendo, obiurgando, querendo, lau31 dando, miserando personas idoneas damus. Quin deducere deos in hoc genere dicendi et inferos excitare concessum est ; urbes etiam populique vocem accipiunt.
Pagina 54 - Gallicauas alpes porrexerat, novitatem spernentes non desinerent incessere: e diverso Nepos, ne in usum praesumptio malesuada duceretur districtius cuperet commissum sibi a Deo regnandi terminum vindicare.
Pagina 76 - Iustitia prius an bellorum exercitatione an, quod his praestantius est, omnes retro imperatores te pietate superavisse commemorem? ». (55) Per Ravenna v. la lettera n. LXXVII, p. 83; per Milano, la lettera n. LXXI, p. 81: « venalis iudicum, qui Mediolani exuberant, sententia...»; e in genere, la lettera n.
Pagina 204 - Saul, saying : My lord the king. And Saul looked behind him : and David bowing himself down to the ground, worshipped, 10 And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the •words of men that say : David seeketh thy hurt ? 11 Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered thee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but my eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against my lord, because he is the Lord's anointed. 12 Moreover see and know, О my...
Pagina 204 - And the servants of David said to him : " Behold the day, of which the Lord said to thee : ' I will deliver thy enemy unto thee, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good in thy eyes.
Pagina 74 - Vides universa Italiae loca originariis viduata cultoribus. In tristitiam meam segetum ferax spinas atque iniussa plantana campus adportat, et illa mater humanae messis Liguria, cui numerosa agricolarum solebat constare progenies, orbata atque sterilis ieiunum cespitem nostris monstrat obtutibus.
Pagina 11 - ... give; your firstfruits please the better for it, and even my own work begins to rise in my esteem. For the richest reward of a man's labours is to see promising young men growing up in that discipline of letters for which he in his own day smarted under the cane. The numbers of the indifferent grow at such a rate that unless your little band can save the purity of the Latin tongue from the rust of sorry barbarisms we shall soon have to mourn its abolition and decease. All the fine flowers of...
Pagina 106 - ... peril to withhold my knowledge of those things that ought to be known. Moreover, laudable truth should be published as an example to all, while the artificial falsehood of the rhetoricians is to be despised.2 For it is better to say nothing about many noble exploits than from 1 With this passage cf. : obsecro autem eos qui lecturi sunt, ut fidem dictis adhibeant, neque me quicquam nisi conpertum et probatum scripsisse arbitrentur : alioquin tacere quam false dicere maluissem, Sulpicius Severus,...
Pagina 26 - ... das Personenverzeichnis aufgenommen hätten, vita Epiphanii p. 332, 19 H. p. 85, 21 V. Ich las die Stelle gerade nach den bella des Prokopios und meine, daß sie durch die dortigen Schilderungen der italischen Zustände zur Gotenzeit und der maurischen Sitten klarer und lebendiger wird: Epiphanius oriundo Ticinensis oppidi indigena fuit, patre Mauro generatus et matre Focaria editus, quae sancti etiam Myrocletis confessoris et episcopi tangebat prosapiem, hominibus ex liquido ingenuitatis fönte...

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