Letter 2012: ...I'm waiting impatiently for your arrival.

[...] -- I await your arrival impatiently. And indeed I know that my letter is to be delivered to you not far from the city. For holy Patricius, whom you wished to be the guide of your journey, has announced that you will be here shortly. May the gods turn it out well! As the occasion allows, we have offered up but a few things, but we reserve more for conversation in person. [The following lines are the editor's critical apparatus, recording manuscript variant readings, not part of the letter: "adenuncium" in K, "copieatium" in F; line 4 "qnid" in P; "mente loqueris et" in F; "sunt" in F; line 5 "namque" emended to "quae" thus in F; line 6 "detrahas" in V and F (rho); "uale" added in V; line 16 omitted in V and M; line 20 "possit" in M, "poscit" in P and V, perhaps to be written "accessurum"; line 23 "mores" per Cujacius, "maiores" in P, V, and M (PP); "petentes" in P and V, "petente" in M; "uaie" added in V and M; added in V and M.] [running page header: "46 -- The Letters of Symmachus"] [dating note: Book XII, before the year 395.]

rum — adventum tuum inpatienter opperior. et sane scio litteras meas tibi haud longe ab urbe reddendas. nam sanctus Patricius, quem praesulem itineris tui esse voluisti, brevi te adfore nuntiavit. dii vertant benel pro tempore pauca libavimus, 30 sed fabulis plura servamus. adenuncium K, copieatium F 4 qnid P mente loqueris et F sunt F 5 namque] quae sic F 6 detrahas VF{r) uale add, V 16 om. VM 20 possit] M, poscit PV fort. serib. accessurum 23 mores] Cuiaciu$, maiores PVM(PP) petentes PV, petente M uaie add, VM add. VM 46 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE XII ante a. 395.