Letter 2042: I am getting ahead of your voluntary generosity with a formal request, so that what you would freely give may appear...
I am getting ahead of your voluntary generosity with a formal request, so that what you would freely give may appear to have been won by my petition -- and the goodness of your nature may be credited to my account. The distinguished Nicagoras [Text breaks off in source.]
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Latin / Greek Original
Voluntaria beneficia tua petitione praevenio, ut quae tu sponte tribuis, ego videar
impetrare et bonum naturae tuae in gratiam meam transeat. Nicagoran clarissimum
1 fort. adfolserit 2 oale add. VF
quitur epist. K, 78 y magnae et insperatae poasnnt occultaii. uale M, sequitur epist. V, 81 9 insolentis P
mae P l m. famulos toos praecipuus atque honorabilis F
20 haec epiatula in VF po$t ///, 4^ Ugitur inBeriptionem om. VF 21 Ignacio P, In ocio K,
Egtiatio Mommsen in eum] meum V, in eo F 22 fort. nam parcior de illo testimonii cautione pro-
miseram praemiseram F 23 coepisti F expliravit P 1 m. V 24 posset V 25 uale add. VF
sequitur in V 1111, 21
56 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE
PF virum Siciliae fascibus functum sub custodiam adesse iussisti. hunc tibi et suae vitae
integritas et merita fraterna commendant. accedit illi ad praerogativam precatio mea;
qui etsi spero, probitati eius responsuram beneficentiam tuam, sedulo tamen postulo,
ut sanctissimo iuveni in bonum vertat exhibitionis occasio. vale.
XXXXn a. 383—394. 5
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