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symmachus · c. 375 · score 0.02
[This entry preserves only a heading reference to the year 389 AD. The main text of the letter has been lost in transmission.]
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. 372 · score 0.01
I can see you're still wondering whether the confiscation of property followed Rufinus's punishment [Rufinus was a powerful praetorian prefect whose spectacular downfall was a major political event]. The proof is right there, sealed in imperial decrees. And really, given the long record of that old plunderer, no one sh …
symmachus · c. 387 · score 0.01
They say that Socrates, whenever his plans were thwarted or his intentions went awry, considered whatever happened to be for the best. Confident in his own merit, he assumed that what chance delivered was better than what his mind had desired. I follow the wise man's example and put a good interpretation on the fact th …
symmachus · c. 396 · score 0.01
You may be surprised that I'm recommending a bishop. It's the man's cause, not his creed, that moves me to write [a telling remark from the last great pagan senator]. Clemens, performing the duty of a good citizen, protected Caesarea — his hometown — by negotiating peace with the highest authorities. You've heard, I'm …
symmachus · c. 375 · score 0.01
The memory of the former consul Petronius, whose home was in Ariminum [Rimini], requires me to defend his orphaned children. Their house has been designated for military billeting, and unless public authority intervenes, it will suffer total destruction. If my intercession means anything, please send stern letters to t …
symmachus · c. 398 · score 0.01
I have been sent to Milan by the senators to entreat the aid of the divine emperor, which the anxiety of our common fatherland demanded. A speedy return, with God's promised favor, is assured to me by the prosperous course of affairs. But you will crown these present joys if news of your well-being reaches me by letter …
symmachus · c. 396 · score 0.01
This isn't a new request -- it's one you'll recognize. I'm defending the daughters of the late Rufinus, former urban prefect, with a father's devotion. They're alone in the world, and I want their interests protected through you and the others who bear responsibility for the state. So I come as their advocate: whatever …
symmachus · c. 376 · score 0.01
My brother Entrechius, a man of distinction, sent his children away -- driven by a father's impatient love, with the city's shortages adding urgency to their departure. They set out without waiting for the proper season. Since sea travel is impossible right now, they'll stay briefly on the Campanian coast. But please s …
symmachus · c. 366 · score 0.01
You'll learn from the official senate records exactly what the most distinguished order [the Roman Senate] decreed when consulted under imperial instructions about the grievances of the Africans and the complaints of the military. But since you've also asked me personally to report on what happened, I won't keep silent …
symmachus · c. 372 · score 0.01
The fortunes of our shared homeland have been reduced to such dire straits that the worst must be avoided. I want to send your brother back to you immediately. Please provide him with pack animals so that his haste can be properly supported. As for my daughter, she must not be subjected to the hardship of travel, as I …
symmachus · c. 376 · score 0.01
[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. 367 · score 0.01
Having covered the coast beyond Formiae that stretches toward Axyr, we won't delay the ship and its rowers. But we need the gods' help — I hope our return finds nothing to regret. There's constant talk that the people are on the verge of rioting over the meager food supply, and there's no prospect of abundance replacin …
symmachus · c. 390 · score 0.01
My return and arrival in the city -- which is always welcome to everyone -- did not match our expectations in terms of speed. If you want the reasons, here they are. First, to put public matters before private ones: the grain supply of our city is not being increased by any imports. Even hope itself -- which usually su …
symmachus · c. 398 · score 0.01
We've returned to our home and household gods, only to find a few unpleasant surprises. Our estate at Ostia is being hit by repeated encroachments. But if things are going well for you, send me a letter -- its good cheer will clear away the cloud of my present troubles.
symmachus · c. 368 · score 0.01
To Gregorius. I sent a letter to your father with which you too could have been content, for since the two of you share one mind, the same act of devotion ought to satisfy you both. But I feared that if one of you replied on behalf of both, like a priest performing double rites, I would be shortchanged. So just as offe …
symmachus · c. 375 · score 0.01
Break into the gifts of familiar writing and share with me whatever you've accomplished in administering the city's... [The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 8, Letter 20) is heavily corrupt or fragmentary. The above is a partial rendering based on the best available source.]
symmachus · c. 386 · score 0.01
You were joking, I think, when you wrote that you'd been frightened by soldiers on the road -- a transparent excuse to keep us from following you deep into Campania. If even you, a man who spent years in military camps, felt some alarm, what would a soft civilian like me have suffered? But I won't let a pretended scare …
symmachus · c. 392 · score 0.01
Since our dear Sibidius returned to Rome and reported how badly my daughter is suffering physically, my own spirits have sunk as well. So I'm writing at once, anxiously asking, first, that she be helped back to health through medical care and avoiding whatever is harmful, and second, that a reliable report ease my worr …