Letter 6013: The frequency of my earlier letters has used up everything worth writing.
The diligence of my earlier letters has used up all there was to write; now there remains only the dutiful generality of a greeting. And indeed, if there were anything left worth pursuing on the page, it would more rightly be entrusted to the traveler carrying this. For the pen is to be indulged at that time when the person of those setting out is not sufficient for the messages to be received; but now, if you think anything worthy of your knowing, you will learn it more fully from the traveler, without any digression of our discourse. Farewell.
[Dated] the thirteenth (fifteenth) before [the Kalends], 396.
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Latin / Greek Original
AdBiduitas epistularum saperiorum scribenda consnmpsit; sola nunc superest sa-
Intationis religiosa generalitas. et sane^ si qua suppeterent paginis persequenda, com-
5 meanti rectius crederentur. tunc enim stilo indulgendum est, cum recipiendis man-
datis proficiscentium persona non sufficit; nunc si quid scitu dignum putabitis, sine
nostri sermonis excursu plenius a commeante discetis. vale.
Xmi (XV) a. 396.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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