Letter 8: Aeneas blesses Zosimus's voyage from friends back to friends.
I know well that you survived your voyage safely. You did not board the ship to practice piracy, as the most powerful men of old did, nor to trade, as so many mortals do now, but from longing for the dearest people and places. For that reason it would be wrong to say that Zeus the god of friendship did not sail with you. May the city be gracious to you after the sea, and may you gain what you long for, returning from friends to friends.
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Latin / Greek Original
η'. Ζωσίμῳ πρωτεύοντι.
Ὅτι πλέων διεσώθης εὖ οἶδα· οὐ γὰρ κατὰ ληστείαν τῆς νηὸς ἀπέβης οὐδ' αὖ κατ' ἐμπορίαν, ἀλλὰ πόθῳ φιλτάτων ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ τόπων, ὥστε σοι τὸν Φίλιον μὴ οὐχὶ συμπλεῖν λέγειν οὐ θέμις. σοι γένοιτο καὶ ἡ πόλις εὐμενὴς μετὰ τὴν θάλατταν, καὶ τυχὼν τοῦ ἔρωτος παρὰ φίλων πρὸς φίλους ἐπανήκοις.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
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