Letter 107
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus→Unknown|c. 401 AD|symmachus
...Fortune has seized my hand; she's dragged me back against my will. Don't let her convince you — imperious as she is — that I didn't want to come. Farewell.
irascere. illa iniecit manum, illa invitnm retraxit. ita tibi non persuadeat, nt est 30
eadem inpotens, me nolnisse proficisci. vale.
1 tno] tibi F
18 om. VM 19 fori, serih. inpertiat 20 te om. V poasim luretua 21 for-
tane P 1 m. 22 inoiter ad obsequia] egoj inueteralo (?) obseqnia P 1 m.y inneterato obsequio P 2 m. VM
satis VM 26 dequoquere P 27 merorae P solidandi V 28 inmaturae P Uieunam
indieavi. iensua hie fere fuit: si iUis tam inmaturae mortis luctibus peregrinationis raeae cura inngatnr
31 uoloisse V
LIBEB I. 41
cn (Lxxxxvi) .
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...Fortune has seized my hand; she's dragged me back against my will. Don't let her convince you — imperious as she is — that I didn't want to come. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.