In the Menaea for that day it is related that the three Doctors appeared in a dream to John Mauropous, Bishop of Euchaitae, and commanded him to institute a festival in their honour, in order to put a stop to the rivalries of their votaries and panegyrists.
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He might have been attempting to persuade them to ally themselves with Rome, thus reviving the old, Rome-friendly, panegyrist who refers to the loss suggests that its cause was a storm, but this might simply have been an attempt to conceal an embarrassing military defeat.
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Vespasiano is a panegyrist of Nicholas V, the great book-lover; he is severe to the point of injustice against Pope Callistus III, the indifferent lender of books, which, however, he did not give over to pillage, as Vespasiano accuses him of doing.
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Constantine's military skill and building projects soon gave the panegyrist the opportunity to comment favorably on the similarities between father and son, and Eusebius remarked that Constantine was a " renewal, as it were, in his own person, of his father's life and reign ".
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In any case it seems that he occupied the throne on his father's death and soon gave abundant proofs of his political sagacity which, in the words of his panegyrist, the writer of the Nidhanpur inscription, " earned for him the reputation of a second Brihaspati well known to others ."
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In a rough classification of the members of this brilliant triad, Mickiewicz, the master of the epic and lyric, may be called the poet of the present; KrasiDski, the prophet and seer, the poet through whom the future spoke; while SBowacki, the dramatist, was the panegyrist of the past.
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Indeed, Maximian's panegyrist declares : " I pass quickly over this episode, for I see in your magnanimity you would rather forget this victory than celebrate it . " By the end of the year, the revolt had significantly abated, and Maximian moved the bulk of his forces to the Rhine frontier, heralding a period of stability.
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In literature he embraced the whole sphere of contemporary studies, and distinguished himself as an orator, a writer of rhetorical treatises, a panegyrist of the dead, a passionate impugner of the living, a sarcastic polemist, a translator from the Greek, an epistolographer and grave historian and a facetious compiler of " fabliaux " in Latin.
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Based on statements of his panegyrist Isocrates ( who addressed two of his orations to him and has made him the subject of another ), under his rule his kingdom flourished, he replenished the treasury, which had been exhausted by his father's wars, without oppressing his subjects with exorbitant taxes, and behaved in all respects as the model of a mild and equitable ruler.
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Shah�d describes this passage as a mere flourish from Eusebius the panegyrist, " carried away by enthusiasm and whose statements must be construed as rhetorical exaggeration "; John York argues that, in writing this passage, Eusebius was cowed by the anti-Licinian propaganda of the Constantinian era : as an ancestor of the emperor's last enemy, Philip could not receive the special distinction of the title " first Christian emperor " Constantine had claimed it for himself.
