Letter 4023: Our friendship is on everyone's lips, and the fame of your horses has reached distant places.
Our friendship is on everyone's lips, and the fame of your horses has reached distant places. This is why local magistrates keep asking me for letters of introduction, drawn by the reputation of your stables. Leading men from Antioch have been sent specifically [Text breaks off in source.]
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Latin / Greek Original
Et amicitia nostra in ore multomm est, et laus equoram tuorum longinqua pene-
travit. hinc fit, ut suae quisque patriae magistratus meae commendationis opem po-
stulet, gregum tuorum famam secutus. feo propterea summates Antiochensium missi 5
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