Letter 6031: After we sent the boy off, a persistent rumor spread that you are to be summoned by an imperial letter.

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusUnknown|c. 381 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
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After we sent the boy off, a persistent rumor spread that you are to be summoned by an imperial letter. The name of a certain Gratianus, who is said to be carrying such a document, is already on everyone's lips. Although this still seems uncertain to me, I didn't think I should keep it quiet. It will be for the supreme divinity to determine your future and to confirm a course of favorable outcomes. Farewell.

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

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