Quintus Aurelius Symmachus → destinatário desconhecido
Tradução moderna em inglês
When I wrote this letter to you, I was confined to my bed by illness -- freed from danger, to be sure, but still without strength, which keeps being drained by intermittent fevers. Yet even amid the troubles of my poor health, I set my friends to work on having our mutual pledge enrolled among the ranks of consulares by a senatorial decree. Your merits were taken into account -- I will not claim that anything was owed to my influence. I have given the official records of the most distinguished order to the honorable Datianus, and when they reach your hands, you may pronounce that I have fulfilled the obligations of friendship. For there is nothing I want more than to be judged a diligent performer of honest duty. Farewell.
Texto latino / grego
Gum has ad te litteras darem, lectnlo aeger tenebar iam quidem a periculo vindi- catns sed adhnc inops virinm, quae snbinde incertis febribns deternntur. inter haec tamen mala valetndinis meae amicis negotium dedi, nt pignns commnne consnltn patmm ' viris consnlaribns inngeretnr. habita est ratio meritornm tuorum; nihil enim gratiae 25 meae dico delatnm. acta amplissimi ordinis Datiano honesto viro tradidi, qnae nbi in manns tnas venerint, amicitiae me satisfecisse pronnntia/o. nihil enim malo qnam honesti ofGcii diligens indicari. vale. 5 pecuniarias actiones] LeetiuSf pecnniariam sanctionis P 1 m. VF^^ pecuniarias sanctionia P2m.^ pecunia- riam sanctionem F 6 illa V plerumque snperuacua F 7 de me enU sanctis eoU. F 8 pe- tenti VF mihi om. V 9 praesidii P 2 m. V et me F 18 remuneres F 19 expHcit ad ambrosiom Incipit ad hilarium P, om. VM 21 om. VM 22 tenebrariam qoi- dem V 23 inobs P 1 m. 24 ualetudines P 1 m,, ualitudines V pigniis P 26 daciano F, dona M 27 pronuntiato] ego^ pronuntiant PV, proounciabt M XXXVira a. 397?