Letter 6082: May this day live forever -- the day that gave you to us as a daughter.
May this day live forever -- the day that gave you to us as a daughter. I hope to celebrate it with you through many returning years, both with the joy of my heart and with words of honor -- and to keep adding little gifts: heavy for me, delightful for you. For now, I've sent a piece of linen. The offering may not seem small if you weigh it by my affection for you rather than by its price.
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Latin / Greek Original
Aevuni maneat hic dies, qui te nobis filiam dedit. hunc ego et gaudiis mentis
et verborum honoribus per multos annorum recursus vobiscum opto celebrare, adicere
etiam mihi ingravata, tibi iucunda munuscula. ut nunc lineam misi, cuius potest ob- ^
latio exigua non videri, si magis mei in vos animi quam sui pretii aestimatione pen-
datur.
LXXX (LXXXI).
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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