Quintus Aurelius Symmachus → Campania on
Tradução moderna em inglês
Whatever we were hoping for from Sicily is still uncertain. Euscius wrote that the circus drivers and some stage performers had already set sail and were heading to Campania on my orders -- but even now there's no word of their actual arrival. So I've decided to send an agent to scour the coastline everywhere and report back what he finds.
The pressure around the games has only grown, since the people have been demanding -- at every recent show -- a formal petition about the amphitheater, and the presiding magistrate has already given his approval. God willing, the emperor's authority will ratify this as well. Farewell.
Texto latino / grego
Si qua adhuc de Sicilia speramus, incerta sunt. nam cum litterae Euscii nuntia- verint, dudum circi et scaenae artifices navigasse, etiam nunc de adventu eorum ru- mor in operto est, atque ideo apparitorem placuit postulari, qui peragratis ubique litoribus explorata in aures nostras reportet. crevit autem cura ludorum, postquam frequentibus ludis relationem de amphitheatro promerendo populus postulavit, quae 20 mox iudicis impetravit adsensum. dei nutus efficiet, ut super hoc etiam divini prin- cipis concordet auctoritas. vale. XXXIffl (XXXV) a. 401.