Letter 3033: I'm repeating my request on behalf of my friend Sallustius — whom, as you yourself confirmed, you've already taken...
I'm repeating my request on behalf of my friend Sallustius — whom, as you yourself confirmed, you've already taken under your wing. Not because I'm afraid you'll forget your charge through carelessness — sticking faithfully to your commitments is second nature to you — but because my friend's precarious situation keeps me on edge, and one letter of recommendation isn't always enough for a man in trouble.
So I'm reminding you again, even though you're perfectly reliable. The speed of your assistance will spare me the need to keep writing about the same thing.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
Itero postulatum pro Sallustio amico meo et, ut ipse adseverasti, a te quoque in
curam dudum recepto. non quo metuam, ne tutelam forte eius oblivione destituas,
cum familiare sit constantiae tuae fideliter exequi recepta mandata, sed quia diligen-
tiam meam fortuna amici saepe sollicitat et laborantibus commendatio una non sufficit,
licet tenaciter memorcm rursus admoneo. praestabit beneficii tui celeritas, ne sit mihi 25
necesse idem saepius facere.
XXXII axite a. 398.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/qaureliisymmach00seecgoog
Related Letters
1. It is very wonderful how completely I was taken by surprise, when, on searching to discover which of your letters still remained unanswered, I found only one which held me as your debtor — that, namely, in which you request me to tell you how far in this my leisure, which you suppose to be great, and which you desire to share with me, I am ma...
1. When the question, which has long been brought before me by you with something even of friendly chiding, as to the way in which we might live together, was seriously disturbing my mind, and I had resolved to write to you, and to beg an answer from you bearing exclusively on this subject, and to employ my pen on no other theme pertaining to ou...
Good gods, how nothing is safe or certain for us mortals!
I am sure that your excellency loves me well enough to regard all that concerns me as concerning you. Therefore I commend to your great kindness and high consideration my very reverend brother Hera, whom I do not merely call brother by any conventional phrase, but because of his boundless affection. I beseech you to regard him as though he were ...
After the customary greeting, I'll pass along the request of Gaetulicus, an agent in rebus [an imperial courier and...