Roman Letters

Letter 1102: Since you welcome my letters, they'll come more frequently.

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus→Unknown|c. 401 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|AI-assisted
friendship
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My letters, since they are welcome to you, will pass back and forth more frequently, for I am not anxious that you should reply; since indeed it seems to demand as an affront those good offices which a devout mind promises of its own accord. Farewell.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.

Latin / Greek Original

Meae litterae, quoniam tibi acceptae sunt, crebrius commeabunt, nam nt respon-
deas, non laboro. siquidem videtur ininrinm flagitare officia, qnae sponte religiosus
20 animus pollicetur. vale.

LXXXXVin (LXXXXn) ante a. 383.

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Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.

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

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