Letter 2034: Word is that you've ordered Ampelius and some other senators from Sardinia, as is claimed, to appear before the...

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusUnknown|c. 382 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
monasticism

Word is that you've ordered Ampelius and some other senators from Sardinia, as is claimed, to appear before the appropriate court on criminal charges. I now hear they've been transferred to another tribunal.

If your own recollection matches this account, I think it's only fair that you attend to the enforcement of your own rulings.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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