Letter 1011: Is this really my luck — that everywhere I turn, there's something that needs rebuilding?
Hanccine mihi esse fortunam, ut quoquo versum pedem gradumque contulero,
exaedificandum aliquid oflferatnr ? velut me nunc Capuani praetorii instauratio in graves
cogit expensas, cuius pars fatiscit incuria, pars neglegenti dudum celeritate reparata
imbecillum praestat habitaculum. his nisi properata cura subvenerit, aut pecuniae
30 postea dispendium cumulabitur aut minae. nam quis(iuis haec opera intermittit.
amittit. quare animus est amoliri aedium senectutem. ita desiderato et expetito otio
21 Verg. Aen. VI 688.
supernam gutturi VF^ 6 media incoquit Htituiw 7 ima] /W, una V 8 uagae sorores Heinsius
ebrins mentis] -T, om, 3f, mentis om, V ideo] VFM^ adeo 0 15 litteraturam] V0M, literarum F
17 potl undique F
25 ab hac epittula ineipit apographum codicis P in II Patri Symmachus] [II) , om, VM 26 quo-
queuersum V contulero] V[r]^ tulero M^ contulerim [II) 27 exodiflcandum /7 praetarii //
28 cogit] VrM^ coegit (/7) 29 imbecillum] VFM, indecorum (//) 31 amoliri] (//), amoueri VM
odium n- ita a desiderato Mommicn
8 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE
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