Letter 2036: I too embrace the old-fashioned form in my letter headings, and I am quite surprised that a copyist's error crept in.
30 Ego quoque in scribendo formam vetustatis amplector nimisque miror, quod mihi
librarii error obrepserit, qui solitus epistuiis meis nomina sola praeponere, usum sim-
I uelati F
II om. PVM 12 hane epistiUam cumpraeeedmti eonhmgunt PVM, diviai qaodam pelium PF,
quendam peliiim M 15 uale add. VM
tu in Daunios] ego^ tu inda unius VP^, tuenda unius P, om. M 19 postergum in raa. P 20 uice P
ueris (ue in rat.) P, remouearis V uale add. VM
54 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE
PVF plicem novella adiectione mutavit. sed id casn potins qnam consnlto factnm liqnebit,
si recorderis, nnmqnam snperiores litteras meas istinsmodi titnlo sordnisse. et tamen
ntcnmqne ista res accidit , gratnlor novi aliqnid oblatnm , qnod me ab solito respon-
2 dendi gcnere vindicaret. qnonsqne enim dandae ac reddendae salutationis verba
blaterabimns , cum aiia stilo materia non snppetat? at olim parentes etiam patriae 5
negotia, qnae nnnc angnsta vel nulla sunt, in familiares paginas conferebant. id
qnia versis ad otinm rebus omisimus, captanda snnt nobis plemmqne intemptata scri-
bendi semina, qnae fastidium tergeant generalinm litterarnm. iuvit igitur me culpa,
qnam dilui, et si non fallor, tibi qnoque viam dedit inusitata referendi.
XXXVI a. 385. lo
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