Letter 5061: You have been silent for a long time, but I must not imitate such an example.
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus→Helpidium|c. 393 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
friendship
Longam siles, sed ego talis exempli imitator esse non debeo. qnare in officia
primus erupi teque religiosa admonitione convenio, ut litterarium munus, quod sponte
5 amicitiae nostrae deferre debueras, saltem proYOcatus exsolvas.
AD HELPIDIVM. PV^^^F
LXXVIII (LXXVIi .
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Longam siles, sed ego talis exempli imitator esse non debeo. qnare in officia
primus erupi teque religiosa admonitione convenio, ut litterarium munus, quod sponte
5 amicitiae nostrae deferre debueras, saltem proYOcatus exsolvas.
AD HELPIDIVM. PV^^^F
LXXVIII (LXXVIi .
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