Letter 604: Flourish in your own life, and in doing so make your father a happy man.
To Elpidius.
Flourish in your own life, and in doing so make your father a happy man.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
Ἐλπιδίῳ
Εὐδαιμόνει τῷ σαυτοῦ βίῳ τὸν σὸν ποιῶν πατέρα εὐ-
δαίμονα.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from AI-assisted translation from original text.
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