Letter 9006: A matter dear to my heart requires your help: my son's games are approaching, and we need to secure noble horses of...
A welcome occasion has arisen, one to bring you the dutiful service of a greeting. For when, on account of my son's praetorship, we were sending some of our household to the Spains, to whom we had entrusted the purchase of chariot horses, it was fitting that the courtesy of a letter be presented to you, and at the same time to add a request: that you would deign to pick out all the most excellent horses from your herds, which those sent for the purpose might purchase at a fair valuation. I ask you therefore that, if any remembrance of my house abides with you, you would deign, with your most ready kindness, to grant me a thing easy for you to do, but to me indeed agreeable and most honorable.
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Latin / Greek Original
Votiva emersit occasio, quae tibi salutationis adportaret obsequinm. nam cum
ob praeturam filii mei familiares nostros ad Hispanias mitteremus, quibus equorum
curulium mandavimus emptionem, litterarum cultum tibi par fuit exhiberi simulque 20
adicere postulatum, ut nobilissimos quosque de tuis gregibus equos digneris excer-
pere, quos in rem missi sub iusta taxatione mercentur. quaeso igitur, nt si qua
apud te memoria domus meae residet, rem tibi factu facilem, mihi vero iucundam
atque honoratissimam promptissima beneficentia digneris adnuere.
XVnn a. 399. 25
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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