Letter 5032: I am glad that my friend Aurelius has been admitted to the circle of your proteges — not only for his sake, since...
Relatum in cultores tuos Aurelium familiarem meum gaudeo non illius modo
nomine, quem tuendum summatis viri cura suscepit, sed meo maxime, cuius testimo-
ninm iudicii instar habuisti. accessit huic muneri auctior ex litteris tuis gratia, quam-
quam est in illis, quod amantem possit offendere. brevi enim /ranscursu, cum mihi
30 voluptatem adferant, negant satietatem. et est haec natura rerum bonarum, ut illis frui
prolixius velis nec quicquam durius sumas quam placitae orationis citum transitnm.
adde igitur epistulis tuis copiam vel, si potes, detrahe suavitatem. ni ita feceris,
laesus rependam fastidio tuo verba, quae soleo, et paginas longiores.
laudat V
que P 3 m, 30 baec est F 31 neqnicqnam P, sed eorr. 1 m. orationis placitae F
Q. Atbklivs Symmaohvs. \g
138 SYMMACm EPISTVLAE
u (xxxxvmi).
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