Letter 10045: Your silence has been long enough that I write to break it from my end; the alternative is that we lose the habit...
Prompted by duty and by custom, I convey to the knowledge of Your Eternity [the reigning emperor] the names of the magistrates to whom the most august order [the Senate] has, at the time of the designations, assigned the various functions, so that the imperial cognizance may receive those who have been appointed either to present games or to take up the fasces [i.e. to assume magistracies]. To these have been joined those whom the recent influx has added to your Senate. I ought not to be long-winded in matters of this kind, since the credit of a public decree calls rather for a plain conveyance of the proceedings than for any copious eloquence on the part of the one making the report.
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Latin / Greek Original
Devotione et more commonitus magistratuum nomina, quibus varias functiones
desigoationum tempore amplissimus ordo mandavit, ad aetemitatis vestrae perfero
notionem, ut muneribus exhibendis aut subeundis fascibus destinatos cognitio imperialis accipiat. his copulati sunt, quos senatui vestro recens ortus adiecit. prolixus
in talibus rebus esse non debeo, cum decreti publici fides gestorum potius insinuationem postulet quam largum referentis eloquium.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
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