Letter 2039: My son Parthenius's arrival needs no embellishment of recommendation.
The arrival of my son Parthenius asks for no support from any allurements of recommendation, but I judge it to add to his favor that my own discourse is joined to his presence as well. From him you will learn what has been done at Rome, although report will have outrun my writing. For great and unexpected matters do not allow themselves to remain in secret. Our common people have been changed for the better, to such a degree that punishment of the seditious is continually demanded and the insolent have now turned their backs in flight. There is no need of many words. For I ought not to take anything away from the things to be related, since I have reserved the fullness of the matter for the messenger who is coming to you. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
5 Filii mei Parthenii adventus nullis commendationis lenociniis postulat adiuvari,
sed accessumm gratiae eius existimo, quod praesentiae eius etiam meus sermo con-
iungitur. ex ipso Romae gesta noscetis, licet scriptum fama praevenerit. neque enim
res magnae et inspejratae in secreto se esse patiuntur. in bonam partem plebs nostra P
mutata est, adeo ut iugiter seditiosorum poena poscatur et iam terga dederint insolentes.
10 multis non opus est. neque enim quicquam narrandis debeo derogare, qui rerum
plenitudinem venturo ad vos indici reservavi. vale.
XXXVnn ante a. 395.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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