Letter 1052: I could have kept this letter short, since your cousin seemed likely to satisfy you with his own account better than...
25 Potai facere scripta conpendii, cnm tibi germanas meas yerbis sais satisfactaras
aberias yideretar quam meis literis, sed in maiore Incro officia honesta quam otia
mata ponenda sont. ergo neque tacito opus est, at honor amicitiae mihi feratar ac-
cepto, neqne omnia mandanda sant litteris, ut illi ad narrandnm aliquid relinquatar.
accipe tamen rerum capita et sammas negotioram, qaibus frater admonitus latias quae-
30 sita exeqaatar. conyenit inter pablicos sacerdotes , ut in custodiam ciyium pablico 2
obseqaio traderemus caram deoram. benignitas enim saperioris, nisi culta teneatur,
amittitar. ergo malto tanto omatior, qnam solebat, caelestis factas est honor. ex-
pectare mihi yideris omnia, quae sapersant. Titianus meus fdngQtur indicinm, cui
indalgentias narrandi, qnod yelis, opera legata est. edictum principt^m, nisi iam
1 gratia mea /7 2 oporitar YU 3 trigetl YU[n) operam] (/7), actionig VAf, actionis
operam [F) spondissem [11) 5 ianuarii U[n) 6 manns meas F 7 ego] (ZT), ergo VU
ore ■tillantes F 17 tantum de cansa F 19 causatio V 20 calcem pono] F^ adesse uolo V
pareo] VF, parco n qua in re F
mus /T, traberem V 32 ergo multo — 33 uideris cm, F 34 principium VF
24 SYMMACm EPISTVLAE
VF notnm est , idem tibi adsertor expediet. statnas eti^m recepistis iisdem paene popnli
adclamationibus, quibus amiseratis. ridfes? et libet. ntrideas, afnisti. plnradesino,
ne qni strictim meliora detexni, amaris videar inmorari. yale.
XXXXVn (XXXXI) ante a. 385.
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Join in the fight against this man, I beg you by all that is holy.
I've already satisfied both my regard for you and your expectations with a great number of letters in recent days.
For a long time now, my lord and brother Alypius has wished to visit the sacred court.
Has it really pleased our common father [the emperor] to keep you detained longer than I would wish?
In this his second letter to Paulinus of Nola Jerome dissuades him from making a pilgrimage to the Holy Places, and describes Jerusalem not as it ought to be but as it is. He then gives his friend counsels for his life similar to those which he has previously addressed to Nepotian, praises Paulinus for his Panegyric (now no longer extant) on the...