Letter 7052: I know you both want and expect my letters, since custom dictates that the person setting out should open the exchange.
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus→Unknown|c. 389 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
friendship
I know you both want and expect my letters, since custom dictates that the person setting out should open the exchange. So here is my opening salvo -- and I have no doubt that once the signal is given, you won't be slow to reply. Farewell.
Scio et desiderari et expectari a vobis litteras meas, qaia moris est, nt munus
huiusmodi a proficiscentibus inchoetur. auspicium ergo vobis altemandae inter nos
salutationis emitto nequaquam dubitans, tamquam signo dato ad respondendum vos 5
desides non futuros.
LXXVI hieme 393/4.
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I know you both want and expect my letters, since custom dictates that the person setting out should open the exchange. So here is my opening salvo -- and I have no doubt that once the signal is given, you won't be slow to reply. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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