Letter 7037: I recently sent you news of my good health, and I still haven't received a matching report about yours.

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusDecius|c. 384 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|From Rome|AI-assisted
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Recently I conveyed to you the news of my good health, and you have not yet repaid me with anything I might read in turn about your own prosperity; yet it does not weary me to renew the sacred loan before its repayment. For our trust in you is so great that I reckon already repaid whatever is owed by one who loves. Farewell.

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Latin / Greek Original

Proxime ad te indicium salutis meae pertuli, necdum quod invicem de prosperis
tuis legerem, reddidisti: non piget tamen ante solutionem religiosum fenus iterare.

Buspicionem] (77), (a%t\////////////////nem P saepe uolupUtes] (//), /////////pUtes P 17 satisfactum

fonniis] (/7), Bati?////////rmii8 P 18 cum tibi] (//), //////i P

27 om. F
Q. AvnKLirs Symma<:uvs. 24

1 86 SYMMACfll EPISTVLAE

PF tanta est enim securitas animi in nos tui , ut repensum putem , quidquid ab amante
debetur. vale.

XXXUII.

Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/qaureliisymmach00seecgoog

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