Paulinus
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
dearest Paulinus
in the texts
Letters
Rival bishop at Antioch whose party seeks union and claims Western support.
And besides this report, there came to our hearing that the brethren of the party of Paulinus are discoursing with your Uprightness about union with us — I mean us, those of the portion of the man of God, Bishop Meletius.
But when we returned, having gathered much sickness from the rains and the despondencies, immediately letters from the East overtook us, signifying that the party of Paulinus had received certain letters from the West — like, as it were, the tokens of some primacy — and that the factious men of that quarter were greatly elated and exulting in the letters, and that they were then putting forward a …
but he grieves us by being attached to the doctrines of Marcellus, and by admitting without discrimination into his communion those who follow that man.
On the Shortness of Life
The addressee to whom Seneca directs this treatise on the shortness of life.
The greater part of mankind, Paulinus, complains of the spitefulness of Nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, and because these allotted spaces of time run out so swiftly, so headlong, that, with very few exceptions, life leaves the rest of us in the very midst of our preparations for living.
Will you not leave the ground and turn your mind to these things!
Consider, besides, how much anxiety it is to expose yourself to so great a burden;