Letter 1010: We were worried the rain would hold you up.
We were worried the rain would hold you up. But the poet's old line is true: "Hard roads yield to devotion." So we're expecting you on the agreed day. May the gods ensure that what you've set your mind to isn't derailed by any excuses. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
20 In metu fuimus, ne vos imber inhiberet. sed vemm illud est, quod po6ta noster
scriptum reliquit, iter durum vicisse pietatem. quare adventum vestri in diem
placitum praestolamnr. dii modo auctores sint, nt qnae animo destinatis, nullis
causationibus obstrepantur. vale.
X (nn) ante a. 376.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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