Letter 2082: Our son Symmachus, having completed his games as a candidate for office, presents to you the customary quaestorian...
Filius noster Symmacbus peracto munere candidato offert tibi dona quaestoria et
ceteras necessitudines nostras pari bonore participat. quaeso igitur, ut eius nomine
diptycha et apophoreta suscipere dignemini , qui apparatui eius plura et praeclara ss
2 tribuistis. pra^erea domino et principi nostro ad referendam largitati eius sedulam
magis quam parem gratiam, auro circumdatum diptychum misi. ceteros quosque ami-
cos ebumeis pugillaribus et canistellis argenteis bonoravi. tuae igitur potestati tuo-
que arbitrio committo, ut oportune singulis, quae missa sunt, offerantnr.
raque F morborum F
largiUtit P 27 dypticum P
LIBEB II. 67
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LXXXn (LXXXI) ante a. 395.
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