Letter 6031: After we sent the boy off, a persistent rumor spread that you are to be summoned by an imperial letter.
After we sent off the boy, a great rumor spread abroad that your Holiness was to be summoned by a sacred letter, so much so that even the name of a certain Gratianus, who is alleged to be the one about to convey writings of this kind, is bandied about on the public tongue. Although this still seems uncertain to me, I nevertheless did not think it ought to be passed over in silence. It will rest with the supreme Godhead to determine concerning you and to confirm an order of prosperous things.
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Latin / Greek Original
Postquam dimisimus puerum , multus i-umor increbruit, sanctitatem tuam sacris
litteris evocandam, ita ut etiam nomen Gratiani cuiusdam, qui huiusmodi scripta per-
laturus adseritur, in publico ore versetur. hoc etsi adhuc mihi incertum videtur, ta-
cendum tamen esse non credidi. erit summae divinitatis statuere circa vos et con-
»0 firmare ordinem prosperorum.
XXXI (XXXU).
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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