Letter 8013: May this custom endure, and may the mutual assurance of well-being be renewed between us year after year.
May this custom endure, and may the mutual assurance of well-being be renewed between us year after year.
[The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 8, Letter 13) is heavily corrupt or fragmentary. The above is a partial rendering based on the best available source.]
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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