Letter 6032: The distinguished Principius, a man of fine birth and proven integrity, hardly needs a recommendation from anyone...
The most distinguished gentleman [vir clarissimus] Principius, conspicuous in his lineage and his uprightness, does not require a recommendation from anyone else, since he glories also in the testimony of your love and esteem for him. I would expound his good qualities at greater length, were it not the work of a man who labors to excess to rehearse things already known to all. It will suffice to have added this one thing: that whatever honor you bestow upon him reaches all good men who hold him dear.
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Latin / Greek Original
V. c. Principius genere et probitate conspicuus commendationem non requirit
alienam , cum tui quoque in se amoris atque iudicii testimonio glorietur. cuius bona
25 Bymmaciis P
Q. Atkbuvs Stmmaorts. 21
162 8YMMACHI EPISTVLAE
PF latius explicarem, nisi esset operac redundantis cunctis nota replicare. hoc unum ad-
iecisse sufficiet, quidquid illi honorificentiae tribueris^ ad omnes bonos, qui eum dili-
gunt, pervenire.
xxxn (xxxiu) .
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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