Letter 3055: Your servant, having carried out your instructions once we reached our destination, shouldn't leave without a...
The officer, having discharged your instructions, when we had arrived at our destination, ought not to have departed without our testimony, chiefly lest you should think that your zeal on my behalf had been ill bestowed, [...] if the report I bring back had cancelled that favor. Farewell, therefore, I say; and I send ahead even now this petition: that, when we shall have begun to retrace our journey homeward to our native land, you may decree more abundant supports for overcoming the difficulties.
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Latin / Greek Original
Mandatis tuis perfunctus apparitor, ubi ad destinata pervenimus, testimonii nostri
vacuus abire non debuit, praecipue ne studinni circa me tuum male locatum putares,
fsi gratiam relatus sermo solvisset. bave igitur dico et praemitto iam i>etitionem, 5
nt cum iter in patriam relegere coeperimus, eluctandis difficultatibus adminicula ube-
riora decernas.
LXIII a. 387.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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