Letter 1061: I know you're advising me out of genuine love.
I know that what you advise springs from brotherly affection. But a reconciliation requires that man as its author whom the unjust quarrel had as its author, lest he seem to remember the wrong who, having forsworn his friendship, now seeks to renew it as though he had suffered nothing. Therefore I do not refuse the concord that is offered, but, setting aside any regard for his fortune, let the man who provoked the offense return into favor. On my own behalf, for the sake of our friendship, I congratulate you heartily, since your labor will serve the public welfare. Of this matter, for now, I shall speak more sparingly; for a thing that concerns everyone is never content with a single witness, and it greatly befits me so to remember your glory that I be not thought forgetful of modesty. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Scio gennani amoris esse, qnod suades. sed reconciliatio enm reqnirit anctorem,
quem babnit ininsta dissensio, ne noxam memisse yideatnr, qni abiuratas amicitias
s qnasi nihil passns adfectat. qnare oblatam concordiam non refnto , sed sequestrata
consideratione fortunae redeat in gratiam, qni movit offensam. tibi pro nostra amicitia
satis gratnlor, cnins labor salnti pnblicae commodabit. de qno interim parcins loqnar;
res enim, qnae ad omnes pertinet, nnmqnam nno teste contenta est, et mihi magno-
pere oonyenit ita meminisse gloriae tnae, ne verecnndiae oblitns existimer. vale.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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