Letter 5003: You yourself provided the carrier for this reply — so I owe you a double debt of gratitude: the letter came from...
You yourself provided the carrier for this reply — so I owe you a double debt of gratitude: the letter came from you, and through you I was given someone to carry my answer back. May such exchanges of kindness continue between us, and among your many distinctions may your unfailing attentiveness to friends be counted as a title of honor. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ipse mihi rescripti hnius baiulnm praestitisti. duplici igitur nomine gratiam de-
bere me fateor; nam et a te profectus est, qui litteras exhiberet, et per te mihi, qui
referret, oblatus. maneant, oro, inter nos officiorum talium vices, et inter alias lau- 5
des tuas continuatae in amicos religionis titulus censeatur.
VIII ante a. 390.
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
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