Quintus Aurelius Symmachus → Campania
Tradução moderna em inglês
You're trying to lure me out of Campania's embrace with praises of your Tiburtine estate. Dense cypresses, abundant springs, the mountain cool -- it's everything you say. But I'd only pine for it if you'd lingered there longer. As it is, your quick return to Rome makes me suspect you got bored of the place. Pleasures sometimes reach their saturation point.
If that's the case, I'd say Formiae has had enough of you too -- since even the estate you preferred has lost its charm. Farewell.
Texto latino / grego
Retrahere nos e Campaniae gremio Tiburtis agri laudibus studes. est ille, ut praedicas, in tuo rure densus cupressis et fontium largus et montano situ frigidus. 15 sed haec mihi desideranda, si te mora uberiore tenuissent; nunc properato in urbem reditu nescio quam mihi fastiditi loci suspicionem dedisti. habent enim saepe volup- tates satietatem. quod si ita est, satisfactum Formiis puto, quibus renuntiaveras, cum tibi etiam praelata displiceant. vale. xxxn.