Epistulae (10 books) · c. 379
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus → destinatário desconhecido
Tradução moderna em inglês
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 gift than for the quality of someone else's work. Farewell.
Texto latino / grego
Si te amor habet naturalis historiae, quam Plinins elaboravit, en tibi libellos, quomm mihi praesentanea copia fuit. in quis, nt arbitror, opulentoe emditioni tnae neglegens veritatis librarius displicebit. sed mihi frandi non erit emendationis incuria. 20 malni enim tibi probari mei muneris celeritate, quam alieni operis examine. vale. XXV (XVnU) a. 379?