Epistulae (10 books) · c. 368
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus → destinatário desconhecido
Tradução moderna em inglês
Our trip abroad has been extended by a few extra days, since the rains have postponed the games. But I want you to bear this delay calmly, secure in the knowledge that I'm well, and to soothe with steady writing the longing for you that only grows stronger with each day's wait. Farewell.
Texto latino / grego
Accessit peregrinationi nostrae largior dies ex conperendinatione ludorum, quos pluviarum interventus retardat. sed volo, ut hanc dilationem salutis meae certus le- 20 niter feras et desiderium tui, quod apud me crescit ex mora, stili adsidnitate so- leris. vale. VIII a. 400.