Letter 2035: I assumed your return was approaching, since the sacred rites of the Mother of the Gods [the festival of Cybele, the...
I assumed your return was approaching, since the sacred rites of the Mother of the Gods [the festival of Cybele, the...
[The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 2, Letter 35) is heavily corrupt or fragmentary. The above is a partial rendering based on the best available source.]
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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