Letter 2051: We'll be setting out for home tomorrow, God willing — which you already knew.

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusVirius Nicomachus Flavianus|c. 389 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|From Rome|To Rome|AI-assisted
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We shall set out on the journey to our homeland under the auspices of the gods, a thing already ascertained by you beforehand. But religious scruple has prompted us to make you more certain of the day as well. Learn, therefore, that tomorrow the road must be retraced by us; and, since you are most observant of a promise, see that you remember to hasten to the public ceremony.

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Latin / Greek Original

Iter in patriam diis auspicibus ordiemur, quod tibi et ante conpertum est. sed
religio monuit, ut diei quoque certior reddereris. cras igitur viam nobis disce relegen-
dam, et quia promissi servantissimus es, fac memineris ad publicum sollemne con- 20
tendere.

LI ante a. 395.

Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/qaureliisymmach00seecgoog

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