Letter 7024: After your letter was delivered by my coachman and the greeting he brought from the road discharged my obligation,...

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusUnknown|c. 377 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|AI-assisted
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After your letter was delivered by my coachman and the greeting he brought from the road discharged my obligation, I've had frequent occasion to speak with you in writing during your absence. So let me start with what matters most to you: by God's grace, the health of my household and my only son is holding up. I escape the bustle of the city as much as I can at the Vatican estate, though whenever the council calls, I report for public duty.

I know you want nothing more than this from me. I'm equally eager to learn about your affairs.

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Latin / Greek Original

Postquam mihi litteras tuas raedarins meus reddidit et salutatio ex itinere repor-
tata observantiam nostram solvit religione, datus est mihi aditus crebro, dum aberis,
h tecum loquendi. quare ab iis ordior, quae in voto tuo prima sunt. deum pace mea
atque unici mei sanitas viget. urbanas turbas Vaticano, in quantum licet, rure de-
clino, et tamen, si quando in coetum vocamur, ad obsequium consilii publici pedem
refero. scio te nihil amplius velle de nobis. tantundem pernoscere rerum tuarum
desiderii modus postulat. vale.

10 xxn.

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