Epistulae (10 books) · c. 376
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus → destinatário desconhecido
Tradução moderna em inglês
Duty suggested I should write, since the person delivering this letter hopes for more from your judgment than from mine. So I'll leave everything that letters usually contain to him to tell you directly. From him your Excellency will hear both what's worth knowing about me, and what his own situation requires.
Texto latino / grego
Ofiicii mei ratio suasit, nt scriberem, quando ea est persona litteras redditura, ut plus de iudicio tuo quam de meo speret auxilio. itaque omnia, quae mos est litteris explieare, ipsi potius narranda delego, a quo amplitudo tua, et quae de me cognitu digna crediderit, et quae ipsins fortuna poscit, accipiet. 10 XXn a. 382—383.