Letter 5020: A fragmentary letter header; the text is largely lost.
[This entry preserves only a heading reference to the year 389 AD. The main text of the letter has been lost in transmission.]
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
XXXVm (XXXVI) a. 389.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/qaureliisymmach00seecgoog
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