Letter 6056: Please welcome Maximus -- an old friend but a brand-new courier [agens in rebus, an imperial messenger], a man going...
Maximum veterem amicum sed novum agentem in rebus accipite inter tirones
cum canitie militantem. ab hoc percontanda discetis, atque ideo mihi fugienda est lo
prolixae epistulae //eratio absque adventus vestri petitione, quam frequenter exambio,
et si desiderium vestri sineret, iam silere deberem, quia verecundiam creant ineffica-
citer postulata. sed amor in vos meus prope inpudentiam suadet frequenter elusis.
vereor autem, ne ideo vestrum reditum promiseritis , ut nostrum ad vos prohiberetis
excursum. 15
Lim (LV) hieme 397/8.
SYMMAOHVS NICOMACfflS FILHS.
Salutem vobis precamur, cuius indicium puero revertente optamus accipere. mea
valetudo caret interim doloribus sed indiget firmitate maxime accedentibus curis, quas
proxime facta a senatu auxit oblatio. ire longius piget, cum haec quoque securis ab 20
animo ingessissepaeniteat.
LV (LVI) a. 398 ?
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