Letter 8021: I'd owe you rich thanks for greeting me so promptly after my departure, if the hope of a greater favor didn't claim...

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusUnknown|c. 376 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
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I'd owe you rich thanks for greeting me so promptly after my departure, if the hope of a greater favor didn't claim...

[The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 8, Letter 21) 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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