Letter 7002: The moment a familiar opportunity to write presented itself, I didn't hesitate to put my longing for you on paper.

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusBrothers of Symmachus|c. 365 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|From Rome|To Rome|AI-assisted
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As soon as a familiar opportunity afforded me the chance of writing to you, I did not put off attesting my longing for you by a letter, so that, being assured of my own well-being, you might attend to your own, and from time to time console my absence with the pleasure of correspondence. Farewell.

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Latin / Greek Original

Vbi primum scribendi mihi ad vos copiam familiaris ingessit occasio, non distnli
15 desiderium tui scriptione testari, ut salutis meae certus tuam «ures et subinde absen-
tiam meam litteraria voluptate soleris. vale.

m a. 399—402.

Revision history

  1. 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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