Letter 2024: I practically seized Simplicius, the imperial agent, at the very gate of the Via Flaminia, just to dictate these few...
I practically seized Simplicius, the imperial agent, at the very gate of the Via Flaminia, just to dictate these few essential words to you.
Our boy Flavianus arrived in Rome on the last day of February. He'll soon set out for Asia under favorable auspices. I thought you should know right away, so that the good news would dispel the worry you've been carrying about his delay. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
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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- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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