Letter 3025: ...while others track scent-trails with the keen noses of their hounds.
...the shadows track the footprints with the keenness of hounds. But all these things would please more, if you were occupying yourself with us. The learning of the Scaevolae [renowned Roman jurists] holds you fast, while as a sleepless teacher you train up the forensic ranters. Therefore hasten swiftly, so that what remains of the holidays may wipe away your distaste for toil; or at the very least, if your love for that workhouse is so great, be present energetically, so that you may return readier for speaking. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
2 odbra vestigia canum sagacitate disquirunt. sed haec omnia, si nobiscum ageres,
plus placerent. tenet te eruditio Scaevolarum, dum forenses ra6ulas pervigil doctor »o
instituis. quare accurre pemiciter, ut feriarum reliquiae laboris fastidium tergeant, \el
certe, si tibi ergastuli istius amor tantus est, adesto inpiger, ut ad dicendum promptior
revertaris. vale.
xxmi.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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