Letter 2003: Wanting to know how your family's business is going — that's the mark of a loyal and honorable concern.
Wanting to know how your family's business is going — that's the mark of a loyal and honorable concern. So I'm happy to answer your questions.
We reached Cora in heavy rain. We'll rest here three days to recover, then push on to Terracina first, and the next day to Formiae in one continuous stretch. Whether the local estate can feed us for two days remains to be seen.
In the meantime, finish whatever you set out to do in Rome, then start down the Appian Way with the gods' blessing — at a pace that keeps our tracks fresh ahead of yours. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Fratmm negotia velle cognoscere pia et honesta cnratio est. libens igitnr re-
spondebo quaesitis. Coram multo imbre pervenimns. hic triduum conmorati ad levan-
lu dnm laborem Terracinam prius et postridie Formias continnato petemns excursu. fors
fuat, an possit bidno tenus eiusdem nos praedii annona retinere. vos interea peracto,
quod Romae agere destinastis, Appiam diis auspicibus inchoate ea dimensione, nt iter
nostmm proximis vestigiis nrgueatis. vale.
mi a. 383.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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