Letter 5010: The bearer will deliver to you a gift that our friendship has long promised.
The arrival of our friend Numida brought me no small joy. Your letter doubled that happiness. Thus, having received two gifts from you, I return our friend to you with a greeting by letter. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Numidae familiaris nostri adventus haud mediocriter mihi gaudio fuit. hanc lae-
titiam tuus sermo geminavit. duobus igitur a te muneribus adfectus amicum tibi cum
litteraria salutatione restituo.
XXVm (XXVI).
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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