Letter 3029: Your long-desired letter finally arrived with my servant's belated return, and it brought me very welcome news of...

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusMarinianus|c. 380 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|From Rome|To Marinianus (recipient)|AI-assisted
travel mobility

The letter I had longed for was delivered to me only late, by the arrival of my man, and it furnished us a most welcome token of your well-being. And would that the ease of travel afforded the means of more frequent service.

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Latin / Greek Original

Desideratas mihi litteras sero hominis mei adyentus exhibuit, quae nobis gratum
«idmodum salutis tuae indicium praestiterunt. atque utinam facilitas commeatus copiam
^^ daret frequentioris officii.

xxvm.

Revision history

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

    Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.

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