Letter 8019: And if fortune favors, I'll follow the letter in person soon.
And if fortune favors, I'll follow the letter in person soon.
[The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 8, Letter 19) is heavily corrupt or fragmentary. The above is a partial rendering based on the best available source.]
AI-assisted translation — This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
valetudo filii mei diu in dubio versata cessationem mihi ab huiusmodi ofRciis impe-
ravit. qui ubi primum suflfragio salutarium potestatum coepit emergere, se-
cutus est ilico scribendi usus securitatem. accipe igitur libens a me dictam salutem,
quam si fors optata iuverit, mox sequemur.
25 LX (LVUII).
AD SERVIVM.
Opperiris, ut intellego, litteras meas., quasi ipse familiaris officii praesul esse
non debeas. fortasse allegatione moris uteris, quoniam plerisque persuasum est, au-
spicium salutationis profectis esse capiendum. absolvo te consuetudinis observantia
30 aut lege pigritiae. satis erit mihi ad plenam satisfactionem , si aversatus scribendi
occupare principium saltem sequaris exemplum.
personas F2.3, om, F^ patris F2, om, F» 5 nobis F^ retentatur] /7, retinetur F
etiam] et F^ etiam mihi F^ tuus] Lyp8iu$, mutnus F^, inuitus F^, munus Fi 6 est
Uxatio F2, taxatio uel existimatio est F^ mihi] (77), om, F credo F^ 7 tuo om. F2.3
romidolo F^ 8 uale om, F^
eorr. ex dinisis T 14 sensus] (r), usus (U) 16 gratias (F) 17 debitus] T, om. (IT)
^^'^testatum coepit (/7), auppU: e periculo vel aimile quid
232 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE
LXI (LX).
n AMICIS ROMAM.
Iter Capuam promovemus. forsitan suspicemini interventuram soliti in vos officii
oblivionem per longitudinem viae; vulgati quippe proverbii est, enavigato Maleo ob-
limari eorum memoriam, quos domi reliqueris. me, quoquo versum pedem ikulero, s
amicorum cura comitatur. sperate igitur bonorem huius mnneris circa vos esse man-
surum, si optatis fortuna consenserit.
LXII (LXI).
AD ROMVLVM.
Non sum opinionis ambiguus, expectari litteras meas. nam ego quoque parem lo
desiderii inpatientiam de epistulis tui^ patior. una igitur est nostri causa sermonis,
ut tuum merear; cuius, ut in potu fontium; ideo maior est sitis, quia sapor dulcior.
vale.
LXm (LXII) a. 398.
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