Letter 5044: Duty demanded that I write, especially since a convenient opportunity presented itself.
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus→Unknown|c. 386 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
education booksfriendshipimperial politics
15 Religio postulavit, ut scriberem, praesertim cum hortaretur familiaris occasio. nam
homo tuus tabellarium se mihi optulit, cui nihil litterarum dare summa piaculi esse
perspexi. salvere igitur te opto, me nuntio, et vicissim peto, ut nos sospitatis tuae
indiciis munereris.
LXn (LX) a. 396—397.
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15 Religio postulavit, ut scriberem, praesertim cum hortaretur familiaris occasio. nam
homo tuus tabellarium se mihi optulit, cui nihil litterarum dare summa piaculi esse
perspexi. salvere igitur te opto, me nuntio, et vicissim peto, ut nos sospitatis tuae
indiciis munereris.
LXn (LX) a. 396—397.
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