Roman Letters

Letter 10076: The grain supply from Africa has been interrupted; I write to report the situation and to request the imperial...

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus→Unknown|c. 398 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|AI-assisted
barbarian invasioneducation booksfriendshipillnessimperial politicsproperty economics
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  1. 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import

    Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/qaureliisymmach00seecgoog

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