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symmachus · c. 375 · score 0.02
[This entry preserves only a heading reference to the year 389 AD. The main text of the letter has been lost in transmission.]
symmachus · c. 375 · score 0.02
And if fortune favors, I'll follow the letter in person soon. [The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 8, Letter 19) is heavily corrupt or fragmentary. The above is a partial rendering based on the best available source.]
symmachus · c. 375 · score 0.02
Break into the gifts of familiar writing and share with me whatever you've accomplished in administering the city's... [The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 8, Letter 20) is heavily corrupt or fragmentary. The above is a partial rendering based on the best available source.]
symmachus · c. 395 · score 0.02
There is plenty to write about, but my spirit recoils from speaking things that are painful to recall. I can see, though, that news about the city can't be suppressed -- and rumor, as it loves to do, will exaggerate the present situation. So to prevent that, I've attached a brief summary of what you need to know: this …
symmachus · c. 384 · score 0.02
I cannot decide what form of reply best suits the occasion. I have been afflicted for so long by an excess of rumors that I ought neither to deceive those who love me with false ones nor alarm them with true ones. Yet hope -- which always provides patience in adversity [Text breaks off in source.]
symmachus · c. 382 · score 0.02
I'm staying at my country house outside the city. The hassles of urban life have worn me out, and I'm enjoying the pleasant renewal that a villa offers in autumn. Better still, friends keep arriving, which gives me the kind of company that in Rome counts as the only real mark of distinction. But our little granddaughte …
symmachus · c. 371 · score 0.01
May this custom endure, and may the mutual assurance of well-being be renewed between us year after year. [The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 8, Letter 13) is heavily corrupt or fragmentary. The above is a partial rendering based on the best available source.]
symmachus · c. 382 · score 0.01
My brothers Dorotheus and Septimius, praiseworthy men, carried a single letter from you. But my sense of duty would not allow me to take the shortcut of a single reply: I wanted both to return you double the courtesy of your service, and to give each man individually the honor of a deserved testimonial. Even though our …
symmachus · c. 366 · score 0.01
[To a friend] A man traveling to give thanks needs no letter of introduction, so my son Flavianus, relying on the benefits you've bestowed, spares his father that particular effort. What remains for me to write — and what his gratitude will confirm in person — is that no one is readier than you to restore men's fortune …
symmachus · c. 377 · score 0.01
...I pray you, show the just kindness of a fair price and good selection in this long foreign journey, so that the men who followed a flattering reputation may be confirmed in their hope -- a hope grounded in your dedication and my own standing.
symmachus · c. 377 · score 0.01
Here we are, idling in the countryside and enjoying autumn in all its variety. After committing the new wines to their casks — crushed by foot and press until they ran free — we've been grinding Sicyonian olives in the trapetum [olive press], so the early fruit can be worked into green oil while it's still fresh. Meanw …
symmachus · c. 372 · score 0.01
I take great pleasure whenever I receive one of your letters. They bring proof both of your good health and of your affection. I am especially glad that you promise to visit soon. To encourage you to hurry, I announce that my son, if divine favor smiles on us, will assume the praetorian fasces [take up the office of pr …
symmachus · c. 398 · score 0.01
...your delight prompted a letter written in high spirits. [The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 7, Letter 75) is heavily corrupt or fragmentary. The above is a partial rendering based on the best available source.]
symmachus · c. 393 · score 0.01
You ask how I am and what I am doing. I answer your inquiry out of love: I am well enough, occupied with the usual business of a senator's life -- attending sessions, managing estates, keeping up correspondence, and trying not to let the worries of the age consume all my peace. If this sounds modest, it is because in t …
symmachus · c. 367 · score 0.01
I pray the gods that the health I'm enjoying extends to you and your family as well. That opening, I think, covers what needs saying — a prayer for your well-being and a note of my own happiness. But you won't let my letters be short! So what shall fill a longer page? Where I've been and what I've been up to — since fr …
symmachus · c. 372 · score 0.01
My friend Gaudentius has taken refuge in your protection -- a man who deserves to be loved in every respect. He is of senatorial family, and his character and modesty are nobler than his distinguished birth. If you do not think my testimony is tainted by mere flattery, take him under your wing. A long inspection of his …
symmachus · c. 377 · score 0.01
Our friendship is on everyone's lips, and the fame of your horses has reached distant places. This is why local magistrates keep asking me for letters of introduction, drawn by the reputation of your stables. Leading men from Antioch have been sent specifically [Text breaks off in source.]
symmachus · c. 390 · score 0.01
I'm perfectly willing to write, but I'd rather save the news for my dear son Sibidius to relay in person at his leisure. So this page serves only as a greeting -- its brevity will satisfy the respect due to you without stealing his thunder. Farewell.
symmachus · c. 391 · score 0.01
...so that I might discharge my obligation to you according to the ancient custom. For this practice has grown from an old institution, and I would not wish to be found wanting in the observance of traditions that our ancestors held sacred. Accept this courtesy as it is intended -- not as mere formality but as a renewa …
symmachus · c. 375 · score 0.01
I come to the aid of my conscience, which will not allow me to remain indebted to the services of friends. My brothers Romanus and Magnillus, distinguished men, bound me to them long ago by the merits of their devotion. Though they do not demand the rewards that lesser fortune usually expects, they press their claims o …
symmachus · c. 380 · score 0.01
Opportunities to send you greetings must be sought out when they're scarce and seized when they appear -- especially at a time when I'm worried about my daughter's health, which I believe has been further weakened by fasting. Put my fears to rest with news that she's improving. My own step is still unsteady, but if a r …
symmachus · c. 376 · score 0.01
I reap annual harvests of joy from your letters -- this is the return, these are the riches that Spain pays me. And so, when winter retreats and the sea lanes open to ships, I entrust your letters to the winds -- though this year they reached me often enough but always late. Autumn was already fading when your men touc …
symmachus · c. 368 · score 0.01
[This is a long letter whose text is substantially intermixed with critical apparatus and OCR artifacts. The legible portions include: a discussion of protocol in correspondence (who should write first when a friend is traveling), thanks for news of recovery from illness, praise of the recipient's career, and conventio …
symmachus · c. 395 · score 0.01
I make a point of writing to you often, so it never seems my care for our friendship has cooled. [The Latin manuscript tradition for this letter (Symmachus, Epistulae Book 7, Letter 68) is heavily corrupt or fragmentary. The above is a partial rendering based on the best available source.]
symmachus · c. 374 · score 0.01
You have finally broken your long silence -- though, by Hercules, only after being prodded by my repeated letters. Still, my delight is no less than if you had written of your own accord. I rejoice at my brother's appointment to the vicariate [the office of vicarius, a deputy governor] as if the honor had been bestowed …