Letter 3049: Everything goes according to my wishes when I am granted the knowledge of your good health.
Ex sententia mihi cupita succedunt, si quando perfrui datur salutis tuae cogni-
25 tione adloquii munere ego liquere apud te satis habeo conpertum. quid
enim mihi amoris inpenderes, si de me incertus esses? atque utinam scripta haec
tua, quam sunt honoris plena, tam crebra sint. gravis est enim sitis rerum bonarum,
cui sola fruendi adsiduitas medicinam facit. ergo indulgentius abutere munificentia
scriptionum. nam quo plus est in litteris tuis, quod gaudeam, hoc magis superest,
30 qnod requiram. vale.
XXXXVU a. 378.
AD EVTKOPIVM.
Noxae vacuus otiare et liberis remissus invigila, quando ita volvenda attulit dies,
ut d. n. Gratiani fortissima simul ac felicissima manu nutantia reip. pondera fulciantur.
8 Verg. Aen. nil 174. Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum.
Dantlns P2m. 12 credebam F[r) 15 putarem poat nnntiari colloc, F 17 conquestus F
ego PF, lacunam indieavi 26 inpenderis P 27 bonarom rerum F 28 utere F
86 • SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE
P videoroe tibi iravTjYopixcorepov locatas, qaam mos epistalae simt? sie se habet ratio,
at res maximae magnos hiatas oris reqairant. sed haee stilo exeqaenda tibi ante
alios, cui poUet Minerva, conceth^nias; nos ad familiaria revertamar. dia a me bona
valetado dissensit. inhomiisti paalalom, scio. pone sollicitadinem ! iam valemas.
nanc refectione opas est, caias mihi copia sermonis tai pabalo, si annaeris istiosmodi &
operam, poterit provenire.
xxxxvm.
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