Letter 2024: I practically seized Simplicius, the imperial agent, at the very gate of the Via Flaminia, just to dictate these few...
Simplicium agentem in rebnB paene in porta Flaminiae retentavi, ut ad te panca
et non omittenda dictarem. filius noster Flavianns Romam pridie Ealendas Martias
venit, et brevi iter in Asiam secundis auspiciis ordietur, quod ideo par fuit indicari, s
ut soUicitudinem, quam de mora eius hucusque tolerasti, spes promissa detergeat. vale.
XXV ante a. 395.
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