Quintus Aurelius Symmachus → destinatário desconhecido
Tradução moderna em inglês
I'm repeating my request on behalf of my friend Sallustius — whom, as you yourself confirmed, you've already taken under your wing. Not because I'm afraid you'll forget your charge through carelessness — sticking faithfully to your commitments is second nature to you — but because my friend's precarious situation keeps me on edge, and one letter of recommendation isn't always enough for a man in trouble.
So I'm reminding you again, even though you're perfectly reliable. The speed of your assistance will spare me the need to keep writing about the same thing.
Texto latino / grego
Itero postulatum pro Sallustio amico meo et, ut ipse adseverasti, a te quoque in curam dudum recepto. non quo metuam, ne tutelam forte eius oblivione destituas, cum familiare sit constantiae tuae fideliter exequi recepta mandata, sed quia diligen- tiam meam fortuna amici saepe sollicitat et laborantibus commendatio una non sufficit, licet tenaciter memorcm rursus admoneo. praestabit beneficii tui celeritas, ne sit mihi 25 necesse idem saepius facere. XXXII axite a. 398.