Letter 4020: Resume the path of our long-neglected custom — I lead the way, being the first to break our shared offense of silence.
Resume the path of our long-neglected custom — I lead the way, being the first to break our shared offense of silence. I do not demand a separate letter from each of you, though each of you individually owes me that. It is already generous that I ask only this: repay with alternating replies the correspondence that I alone have been providing. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Relegite viam dissimulati tiactenus moris me officiorum familiarium praesule, qui
prior rupi commune delictum. nec pro numero vestro epistulas peto, quamvis hanc
vicissitudinem mihi singulorum amor debeat. magnae indulgentiae res est, ut fenus,
quod vobis solus exhibeo, altema remuneratione solvatis.
enim Vy quod humns M 5 inpatientiae] 8uae, patientiae PVM 7 nomis^ma P, nummisma Jf,
Dorma PP 8 potui( P anueiecundia P 9 amore P2 m. noscit V ignoacere] MerctTy
agnoacere P 2 m, VAf, ag//8cere P 1 m, et] PjT, om. VM ut sum placido in meos animo] SeioffphUy
ut 8ub pladto in meos animo jT, tum (tunc M) sub placito in meos animos PVM 10 celeritate V
11. 12 explic ad florentinum. yi. inc iu oommune fHtrib; mineruio protadio et florent P, explidt ad
florentinum: incipit in commune fratribus mineruio protadio et florentino (F), om. VF 14 et uestra in
raa, P 15 hoc] enim V 16 mei om, VF temporiB (po in ra$,) P uestrarum F
fatigatione V 18 nemesi ipaa ad P, themesii pia kd F patremque] lureUUy fratremque PV, fra-
trumque F 21 duorum] PFF, tuorum V0
25 om, VF 29 solus om, F
1 1 8 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE
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