Letter 5064: I escort with this letter a fellow citizen and mutual friend, whose virtues are already known to you and therefore...

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusUnknown|c. 394 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
friendship
From: Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
To: [Unnamed correspondent]
Date: ~394 AD
Context: A letter escorting a mutual friend and citizen.

I escort with this letter a fellow citizen and mutual friend, whose virtues are already known to you and therefore require no elaborate introduction from me. Please welcome him as warmly as his merits deserve and as our shared friendship demands.

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

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