Letter 4024: ...I pray you, show the just kindness of a fair price and good selection in this long foreign journey, so that the...
[...the opening of the letter is lost; the surviving text begins mid-sentence...] ...prolong, I beg, while you sojourn abroad, the just kindness both of your choice and of your esteem, which may confirm that men who have followed a flattering opinion have hoped for something true concerning your zeal and my own desert.
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Latin / Greek Original
nue, oro, longum peregrina/is et electionis et pretii iustam benignitatem, quae homi-
nes opinionem blandam secutos de tuo studio meoque merito verum sperasse confirmet.
LXm (LXmi) a. 400.
Revision history
- 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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