Epistulae (10 books) · c. 373
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus → destinatário desconhecido
Tradução moderna em inglês
You used to be a prolix writer, matching the strength of your talent. But ever since the honor of court life called you to active service, you too have taken to clipping your words -- like a light-armed skirmisher who sheds his baggage for the march [Text breaks off in source.]
Texto latino / grego
Soles in scribendo esse prolixus pro ingenii tui viribus; postquam te honor au- licus in procinctnm vocavit, tu quoque verba succingis et tamquam levis armaturae