Nicomachi, sons of Symmachus & Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

Your letter brightened my day, and your words doubled the pleasure of our household's birthday celebration.

Grand requests require a preamble; for easy favors, there's no need for elaborate pleading.

I received your letter with such pleasure that I confess all my earlier complaints have been forgotten — the charm...

Your letter was delivered to me while I was staying at the seventh milestone on the Via Ostiensis [the road from...

Your letter was delivered while I was at the seventh milestone along the Via Ostiensis, and I immediately arranged...

A certain convention kept me from being the first to write — old custom requires that travelers initiate the...

After this greeting, I turn to a matter that demands your attention.

I've wanted to write to you for some time, but the demands of public and private business have kept my pen idle.

The frequency of my earlier letters has used up everything worth writing.

I foresaw the fear that news of my illness would cause you.

I would gladly have helped Taburus's brother, whom you asked me to assist, and would have done so without...

My brother Entrechius, a man of distinction, sent his children away -- driven by a father's impatient love, with the...

My dear Zenodorus doesn't yet know you in person, but your reputation has already won his admiration.

A longer letter would be needed if I were recommending a stranger.

Opportunities to send you greetings must be sought out when they're scarce and seized when they appear -- especially...

Your brother has been deeply grieved by the loss of his tutor and only recently started listening to those trying to...

As long as the rumors are still circulating and nothing is settled, stay calm and enjoy your leisure.

...so you should know that these friends were hand-picked by the distinguished consul himself, and that you are the...

Our friend Severus has been released from his public troubles and is heading home to enjoy some peace.

My first concern is always to ask how your health stands.

We tried to keep the crocodiles -- the ones displayed at the theater show -- alive for your visit.

It's unnecessary work to remind someone who already remembers, but when you've taken on a friend's business, you...

The birthday gift you sent -- may our shared happiness keep this tradition alive for many years to come -- lifted my...

I've already used up my writing time with the servant heading back to Campania, but I didn't want your saintly and...

I'm perfectly willing to write, but I'd rather save the news for my dear son Sibidius to relay in person at his leisure.

We need to renew our petition for the emperor's visit.

Please welcome Maximus -- an old friend but a brand-new courier [agens in rebus, an imperial messenger], a man going...

The situation is, as you will have gathered from the general news, one that calls for caution rather than boldness.

Our Senate's delegates have returned after handling everything successfully.

I had already sent a letter with my own messenger when Maximus turned up asking for another.

We've returned to our home and household gods, only to find a few unpleasant surprises.

I'm in agony from kidney pain.