4 surviving letters between Marinianus and Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, spanning 377-380 AD.
Your poem reached me and I have read it with the pleasure that work of genuine quality always gives, alongside the...
...while others track scent-trails with the keen noses of their hounds.
I had believed that nothing could be added to a friendship between us that is already full and long-established.
Your long-desired letter finally arrived with my servant's belated return, and it brought me very welcome news of...