Letter 8025: With the blessing of the divine powers, my son Symmachus will assume the fasces [the ceremonial rods symbolizing...
With the blessing of the divine powers, my son Symmachus will assume the fasces [the ceremonial rods symbolizing...
[The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 8, Letter 25) 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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