Letter 5054: I delight in the regular frequency of your letters and draw abundant joy from this gift.

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusLicinium|c. 390 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
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From: Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
To: [Unnamed correspondent]
Date: ~390 AD
Context: A warm note expressing pleasure in frequent correspondence.

I delight in the regular frequency of your letters and draw abundant joy from this gift. Each one arrives like a visit from a friend -- brief, perhaps, but welcome beyond measure. Let us keep this rhythm, for the steadiness of our correspondence is itself a form of constancy. In an inconstant world, the reliable arrival of a friend's letter is a small miracle.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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