Epistulae (10 books) · c. 397
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus → destinatário desconhecido
Tradução moderna em inglês
Indulge yourselves, by all means -- you're so overflowing with the bounty of land and sea that the wealth of both elements supplies your table with a feast fit for the gods. It's enough for us that we get a share of everything you take in, and so generously that we too are swimming in fine dining.
Texto latino / grego
Indulgete deliciis, qnando ita terrae ac maris copiis redundatis, ut vobis polluci- bilem victum utriusque elementi ministret opulentia. nobis satis est, quod omnium^ quae capitis, parte defruimnr adeo largiter, ut ipsi quoque opimis dapibus adfiuamus. 5 LXXII (LXXIII).