Letter 7037: I recently sent you news of my good health, and I still haven't received a matching report about yours.
I recently sent you news of my good health, and I still haven't received a matching report about yours. I don't mind paying this dutiful interest before being repaid. My confidence in your feelings toward me is so secure that I consider whatever is owed by a loving friend already settled. 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.
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