Letter 2068: My written recommendation carries little weight if my friend Leontius is not commended by his own blameless life and...
The commendation of my writings counts for little, if it is an innocent life [...] that wins favor for my friend Leontius. Endowed therefore with his own merit, he does not require the props of a commendation; and yet I ought not to refrain from this sort of letter, more to satisfy friendship than to confer any help upon him. You, however, in keeping with the esteem in which you are distinguished, see to it that he knows the gratitude owed to him has been doubled in my name as well. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Parva est commendatio scriptorum meorum , si Leontium familiarem meum inno-
cens vita j^pyiia qiijfrpfiqni^ conciliat. suo igitur praeditus merito commendationis ad-
t5 minicnla non requirit, et tamen abstinere non debeo tali genere litterarum, magis ut
amicitiae satisfaciam, quam ut ei aliquid opis conferam. tu tamen pro dignatione,
qua clarus es, facito noverit, gratiam sui meo quoque nomine esse geminatam. vale.
LXVm (LXVH) ante a. 395.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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