Letter 4027: ...I am still waiting in suspense for your judgment on those pieces belonging to our togaed nation.
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus→Unknown|c. 379 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
friendship
From: Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Roman Senator
To: A friend (name lost)
Date: ~379 AD
Context: A fragmentary letter in which Symmachus mentions waiting for a friend's literary judgment, asking for it to be confirmed by oath since friendship has come under suspicion of flattery.
...I am still waiting in suspense for your judgment on those pieces belonging to our togaed nation. I want you to send it sworn, because it is fitting to bind one's word with an oath whenever friendship is suspected of mere courtesy.
Aniioehenaium h, l. laiere videntur^ e. g. eo Prosper et Chaerea summatis anthiocensium PV misi V
egrinantis PVy peregrinantibus M 8 secutus PV
10 om. VF 11 copia iam] Mommaen, copiam PV 12 muneris VF 13 laudaclano-
rnm K(/^), laudatianorum F deploret VF 14 pretium tuum quod V 15 in remissis VF
remunerabo F, renuncialK) V 16 syngrafam PV 17 potissimus P
26 satU Plm. 27 ediU P 1 m. 28 bis PKAf
LIBER nn. 121
tentiam de illis gentis togatae adhue expectatione indieii tui pendeo; quod volo iura- PVM
tu8 ^ittas, quia convenit vinciri sacramento fidem, si quando amicitia in suspieionem
venit gratiae.
LXVi(LXVI).
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From: Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Roman Senator
To: A friend (name lost)
Date: ~379 AD
Context: A fragmentary letter in which Symmachus mentions waiting for a friend's literary judgment, asking for it to be confirmed by oath since friendship has come under suspicion of flattery.
...I am still waiting in suspense for your judgment on those pieces belonging to our togaed nation. I want you to send it sworn, because it is fitting to bind one's word with an oath whenever friendship is suspected of mere courtesy.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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