8 surviving letters between Attalus and Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, spanning 373-378 AD.
Our friendship had led me to expect your visit.
This letter survives only in fragmentary form, with the manuscript text too damaged to reconstruct reliably.
I'm glad you missed hearing from me, but I reject any charge of negligence.
So I've been keeping silent for nothing, waiting confidently for you to keep your promise.
I'd just come back from the coast at Formiae to my house on the Caelian Hill [one of Rome's seven hills] when I...
The Tiburtine villa that recently came into your possession deserves a more talented wordsmith than me.
After your letter was delivered by my coachman and the greeting he brought from the road discharged my obligation,...
I debated for some time whether to honor you with a letter while properly waiting for your return.