7/24/2023 0 Comments Occupatus sum necesse est![]() ![]() Scio et filiorum cariores esse qui similes uidentur et publicitus simulacrum suum cuique, quod uideat, pro meritis praemio tribui. Quoquo uelis paruo speculo promptam gestare? an tu ignoras nihil esse aspectabilius homini nato quam formam suam? equidem Someone at public expense as a favor for his services, and so that he can see himself.Ĭedo nunc, si et inspexisse me fateor, quod tandem crimen est imaginem suam nosse eamque non uno loco conditam, sed His own image? I know that children who resemble their parents are more beloved, and that a likeness might be set up for One place but toted about handily in a small mirror? Or are you unaware that there's nothing nicer for a man to look upon than So I yield, and if I confess that I've looked into a mirror, what crime is it to know your own image, when it's not fixed in Speculum inspexerim, quoniam, ut res est, magis piaculum decernis speculum philosopho quam Cereris mundum profano uidere. Habere et speculi non tam possessio culpatur quam inspectio, illud etiam doceas necesse est, quando et quibus praesentibus in quod si neque habere utendi argumentum est neque non utendi non Nam et contra plurimis rebus possessu careo, usu fruor. More sinful for a philosopher to stare at a mirror than for someone ignorant to look upon the sacred emblems of Ceres. This is what should be asked: when and in whose presence I might have peered into the mirror. Now, IF owning something isn't proof of using it,Īnd not owning something isn't proof of never using it, and IF it's not so much owning the mirror as looking into it that's faulted, On the contrary, there are many things which I don't own but enjoy using. quid enim? si choragium thymelicum possiderem, num ex eo argumentarere etiam uti me consuesse tragoedi syrmate, histrionis crocota, %orgia, mimi centunculo? Non tamen ex eo accipi me necesse est exornari quoque ad speculum solere. Wardrobe, then from this you would deduce that I'm also accustomed to wearing a tragic robe, the saffron garb of a pantomime, the multicolored robe of a mime? Ut igitur habere concedam - ne aliquid obiecisse te credas, si negaro -,īut you can't conclude, even from this, that I'm in the habit of primping myself in front of it. (If I were to deny it, you might think you'd scored a point against me.) 'habet speculum philosophus, possidet speculum philosophus'. "The philosopher has a mirror! The philosopher has a mirror!" Sequitur enim de speculo longa illa et censoria oratio, de quo pro rei atrocitate paene Take, for instance, that long and accusing oration concerning The Mirror that followed. Finally, the execution of senatorial hostages at Ravenna by Witigis in 537 ensured that at least some portion of the senatorial class would remain hostile to the memory of the Amals well after Justinian invested Ravenna with an eastern administration (5).APOLOGIA APVLEII : PART TWO APOLOGIA APVLEII Theodahad’s later installation of a Gothic garrison at Rome only served to exacerbate unresolved mistrust (4). 525) revealed the latent distrust that was operative between Rome and Ravenna. Theoderic’s earlier execution of Boethius and Symmachus (ca. Of more immediate concern for Cassiodorus and the bureaucratic elite of Ravenna was the fact that the Amals had made a point of favoring the municipal elite with public office and had carefully circumscribed the political advancement of the senatorial elite at Rome (3). The population of Italy was not unanimously celebratory in exchanging the Amal government for Justinian’s and, as the protracted course of the Gothic War made evident, the political sympathies of the population were frequently divided (2). Justinian’s preference for eastern administrators at Ravenna would not become a fait accompli until the publication of theĬonstitutio Pragmatica of 554, which neglected to make any provisions for members of the former palatine elite at Ravenna (1).įor the western bureaucracy, this intervening period of 540 to 554 was one of undecided possibilities. Contemporary observers, however, could not have anticipated the eclipse of the former bureaucratic elite at Ravenna that would occur during the course of the Gothic War in Italy. In hindsight, it is possible to view this event as but one of several stages in the political fragmentation of what would become medieval Italy. In 540 Belisarius and the eastern imperial soldiers under his command claimed control of Ravenna on behalf of the emperor Justinian, overthrowing the official seat of government of the Gothic Amals and commencing what would become over two centuries of eastern administration at the former capital of Italy. ![]()
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