Governor
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
best of men · the governor · those in authority · your honour · your nobility of character
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Governor1 mention
Letters (Greek)
Be greeted, therefore, by us, best of men, and may you be preserved your whole life long, exchanging office for office and benefiting now these, now those, by your governorships.
in the texts
Letters
Unnamed governor(s) addressed in Letters 84 and 86, praised for favouring justice and asked to grant relief to the distressed.
Be greeted, therefore, by us, best of men, and may you be preserved your whole life long, exchanging office for office and benefiting now these, now those, by your governorships.
that, though I had every desire to converse with your nobility of character as often as possible, when I found this occasion of writing I did not run to the godsend, but hung back and shrank from it.
Some of those entrusted with the management of public affairs at Berisi have plundered the grain — which was all that our most beloved brother Dorotheus had for the necessary sustenance of life — whether coming to the violence of their own accord, or with others prompting them.
Orations
The Roman provincial governor with whom Tarsus has strained relations, a recurring figure of civic concern.
And first the matters toward the governor.
Come now, reckon up how your affairs stand toward the governor.