Roman Letters

Letter 6075: We've returned to our home and household gods, only to find a few unpleasant surprises.

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus→Unknown|c. 398 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|AI-assisted
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We've returned to our home and household gods, only to find a few unpleasant surprises. Our estate at Ostia is being hit by repeated encroachments. But if things are going well for you, send me a letter -- its good cheer will clear away the cloud of my present troubles.

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Latin / Greek Original

Patriae ac Penatibus redditi quaedam, quibus offenderemur; invenimus: siquidem
Ostiense praedium nostrum ft^equens pulsat inpressio. sed si t^obis prospere optata
procedunt, praestate litteras, quarum laetitia nubem tergeat praesentis iniuriae. 10

Lxxin (Lxxmi).

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Revision history

  1. 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import

    Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/qaureliisymmach00seecgoog

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