Letter 6020: I would gladly have helped Taburus's brother, whom you asked me to assist, and would have done so without...
[...] whom you wished me to aid, I would have stood by him even [...], had chance granted the presence of those men whom, for his benefit, it was fitting to meet with. Let my goodwill, then, satisfy your unanimity, even if the outcome has denied my wish its effect. I myself, still weak, but now, by the aforesaid leave, secure of recovering, write these lines; and I rise up in strength all the more, the more the nearness of hope promises me your Holiness's swifter return. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Geimano Tabumi , cui me auxilio esse voluistis , etiam Fialntifi dubinfr adfuissem,
si eorum praesentiam fors dedisset, quos ex usu eius oportuit conveniri. satisfaciat 20
igitur unanimitati vestrae animus meus, etiamsi voti efficaciam negavit eventus. ipse
adhuc invalidus sed iam praefata 4^ venia convalescendi securus haec scribo, tanto-
que magis adsurgo viribus, quanto mihi celeriorem sanctitatis vestrae reditum spes
vicina promittit. vale.
XX (XXI) a. 395 ? 25
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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