Letter 2078: Both the usual and the unusual contributions are being made by you for the production of our games.
For the production of our games both the customary things and the unusual are being supplied by you; thus, lavish in matters both traditional and a discoverer of new ones, you devise everything to win the people's favor for our quaestor [the office holder, his son, sponsoring the games]. As, just now, the presentation of seven Scottish hounds [hunting dogs from Ireland/Scotland] has proved, which on the day of the preliminary spectacle Rome so marveled at that it supposed they had been conveyed in iron cages. Therefore, both on account of this matter and besides on account of the other gifts, I render you the greatest thanks I can, although in those things which you bestow zealously upon my brothers in keeping with the greatness of your spirit, you reckon that you are not granting a favor but receiving one.
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Latin / Greek Original
Editioni muneris nostri et usitata a te et insolita conferuntur; ita omnia ad con-
25 ciliandum quaestori nostro plebis favorem et sollemnium rerum largus et novarum re-
pertor excogitas. ut nunc septem Scotticorum canum probavit oblatio, quos praelusio-
nis die ita Roma mirata est, ut ferreis caveis putaret advectos. ergo et hnius rei
causa et praeterea mnnerum ceterorum, quantas maximas possum tibi gratias ago,
licet in lis, quae studiose fratribus pro magnitudine animi tui tribuis, beneficium te
30 non putes praestare sed sumere.
LXXVm (LXXVH) a. 394.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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