Letter 6024: I should have held off writing, since my distinguished son Decius is heading your way and will tell you far more...
I should have held off writing, since my distinguished son Decius is heading your way and will tell you far more about our affairs than any page could contain. But I couldn't resist adding my pen to the pleasure his brotherly visit will bring you. So I pay your household the honor of a greeting, hoping the anticipation of my own arrival may be eased by this written token. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Debni litteris abstinere spectabili viro filio meo Decio commeante, qni de nobis
s^nd religionem vestram plnra narrabit, qnam posset paginamm textns amplecti; sed
minum T 19 ox] ab F 20 in referenda deainit F uiro P 1 m. 25 l^orta P
34 sed om. P 1 m.
160 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE
P iucunditatem , quam vobis tribuet fraterna praesentia , stilo augere non piguit. id-
circo unanimitati vestrae honorem salutationis inpertio, ut adventus mei expectatio
oris munere mitigetur. vale.
xxnn (XXV) .
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
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