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symmachus · c. 370 · score 0.02
[This letter survives only as a fragment -- the main text has been lost in transmission.]
symmachus · c. 375 · score 0.02
[Note: The source text survives only as a single sentence fragment, likely due to a lacuna in the manuscript tradition.] It is proper to inhabit it, impious and cruel to abandon it. Farewell.
symmachus · c. 388 · score 0.02
[This letter survives only in fragmentary form, with the manuscript text too damaged to reconstruct reliably.]
symmachus · c. 374 · score 0.02
[This letter survives only in fragmentary form, with the manuscript text too damaged to reconstruct reliably.]
symmachus · c. 398 · score 0.02
[This letter survives only in fragmentary form, with the manuscript text too damaged to reconstruct reliably.]
symmachus · c. 376 · score 0.02
[This entry preserves only textual apparatus and a brief heading. The main letter text is largely lost.]
symmachus · c. 375 · score 0.01
And if fortune favors, I'll follow the letter in person soon. [The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 8, Letter 19) is heavily corrupt or fragmentary. The above is a partial rendering based on the best available source.]
symmachus · c. 373 · score 0.01
Whole cohorts of letters follow in the wake of your departure, and just as some people seek Athens for its schools or the gymnasiums of the Muses, so your travels attract an admiring crowd. And I don't imagine that a man blessed with the resources of high office finds it burdensome to host friends. So feed these schola …
symmachus · c. 395 · score 0.01
There is plenty to write about, but my spirit recoils from speaking things that are painful to recall. I can see, though, that news about the city can't be suppressed -- and rumor, as it loves to do, will exaggerate the present situation. So to prevent that, I've attached a brief summary of what you need to know: this …
symmachus · c. 401 · score 0.01
[This entry contains only a manuscript reference number and no letter text.]
symmachus · c. 388 · score 0.01
[This entry contains only a manuscript reference number and no letter text.]
symmachus · c. 400 · score 0.01
[This entry contains only a manuscript reference number and no letter text.]
symmachus · c. 366 · score 0.01
[This section contains the closing of the previous letter along with textual notes from the manuscript tradition. The readable portion states:] ...and so I've returned to the Bay of Baiae, since Baiae was quiet by then. From here I send you my greetings, along with the news that we expect to return home soon, God willi …
symmachus · c. 368 · score 0.01
Your letter was delivered to me while I was staying at the seventh milestone on the Via Ostiensis [the road from Rome to its port city of Ostia]. I immediately arranged through the distinguished vicarius [deputy prefect] to have the official records released at my request. But your servant left the city without my know …
symmachus · c. 388 · score 0.01
It is the mark of youthful vigor to rouse wild beasts from their woodland lairs and to pursue liberal studies with the pleasure of the hunt. These pleasures of the countryside are not merely recreation -- they train the body for hardship and the mind for quick decision. I envy your energy and your freedom to enjoy it. …
symmachus · c. 379 · score 0.01
If you have a taste for natural history — the kind Pliny labored over — here are some volumes I happened to have on hand. The copyist, I suspect, will displease a scholar as exacting as you: he's rather careless with accuracy. But don't blame me for the sloppy editing. I'd rather earn your approval for the speed of my …
symmachus · c. 398 · score 0.01
...your delight prompted a letter written in high spirits. [The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 7, Letter 75) is heavily corrupt or fragmentary. The above is a partial rendering based on the best available source.]
symmachus · c. 390 · score 0.01
I'm perfectly willing to write, but I'd rather save the news for my dear son Sibidius to relay in person at his leisure. So this page serves only as a greeting -- its brevity will satisfy the respect due to you without stealing his thunder. Farewell.
symmachus · c. 368 · score 0.01
Your letter was delivered while I was at the seventh milestone on the Ostian road, and I immediately arranged through the distinguished vicarius to have the official records produced at my request. But your slave left town without consulting me — a typical piece of slave insolence. Whether you let that go unpunished is …
symmachus · c. 381 · score 0.01
After we sent the boy off, a persistent rumor spread that you are to be summoned by an imperial letter. The name of a certain Gratianus, who is said to be carrying such a document, is already on everyone's lips. Although this still seems uncertain to me, I didn't think I should keep it quiet. It will be for the supreme …
symmachus · c. 373 · score 0.01
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.]
symmachus · c. 368 · score 0.01
[This is a long letter whose text is substantially intermixed with critical apparatus and OCR artifacts. The legible portions include: a discussion of protocol in correspondence (who should write first when a friend is traveling), thanks for news of recovery from illness, praise of the recipient's career, and conventio …
symmachus · c. 370 · score 0.01
[This letter contains multiple sections interspersed with critical apparatus. The legible portions discuss: congratulations on a friend's appointment to public office, a commendation for a young man being sent to the recipient's province, complaints about irregularities in tax collection affecting Symmachus's estates, …
symmachus · c. 389 · score 0.01
I've already used up my writing time with the servant heading back to Campania, but I didn't want your saintly and honorable father Severus to leave without a letter from me -- partly to fulfill my duty of greeting and partly to share my inspection of the building project at your house. I was very pleased with both the …
symmachus · c. 371 · score 0.01
To a friend (~371 AD): You enjoy my letters -- so you say! That must be why you demand them so often and so eagerly. But I should not be branded lazy just because I cannot satisfy your insatiable appetite for my writing. Do you really think friendship's memory fades through silence? Do not judge hearts that way -- thei …