Letter 7026: Your eyes are searching for me, I'm sure -- but don't let your heart doubt that I'm present.
Your eyes, I believe, are searching for me: let your mind not doubt that I am present with you. For my attentive regard for you travels along with me, and I carry you about entire in the affection of my heart. Nonetheless I keep exercising the pleasure of friendship with my pen; and if you too do the same in return, it will come about that I shall long enjoy the possession of my leisure, since you will not refuse the one thing that could draw me away. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
20 Requii*tmt me, credo, oculi tui: mens adesse non dubitet. mecum enim diligen-
tia tui peregrinatur totumque animi adfectione circumfero. nihilominus exerceo stilo
amicitiae voluptatem; quod si tu quoque invicem feceris, eveniet, ut longum fruar
otii possessionem, quia non negabis, quod me posset abducere. vale.
xxim.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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