Letter 3058: I don't mind writing to Your Excellency often, even though I've received nothing in return.

Quintus Aurelius Symmachusyour Excellency our son Ruffinus, Provost of Cirta|c. 391 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|AI-assisted
barbarian invasionfriendshipmonasticism

I don't mind writing to Your Excellency often, even though I've received nothing in return. I answer for you myself: amid the cares of military life, there's no room for leisurely correspondence. I just hope my steady stream of greetings doesn't start to feel like an intrusion.

I'd almost consider it a favor returned if I simply knew that what I write doesn't bore you.

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Latin / Greek Original

LXX ante a. 399.

Saepe adloqui praestantiam tuam non piget, quamvis nihil invicem sermonis ac-
cepi. ipse enira mihi pro te sponte respondeo, quod inter castrenses curas locum
ofGcia otiosa non habeant. atque utinam tibi adsiduitas adfatuum meorum non videa- &
tur obstrepere! prope est, ut referri mihi litterarum gratiam putem, si sciam, quae
scribo, non adferre fastidium.

LXXI ante a. 399.
AD TIMASIVM.

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  1. 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import

    Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.

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