Letter 7004: The consular magnificence did full justice to the circus games.
The consular magnificence did full justice to the circus games. The theatrical shows and the gladiatorial spectacles -- the most splendid events of all -- are still ahead. Once they're finished, which I expect before the Nones of February [February 5], I'll set out for home. I'm writing this so that your happiness can feed on better hopes in the meantime. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
25 Circensium sollemnitati consularis magnificentia satisfecit; ludomm adhuc et mu-
neris splendidissimae imminent fnnctiones, quibns ante Febmarias nonas, ut opinamur,
inpletis iter ad nostra relegemus. haec eo scribo, ut laetitia amabilitatis tuae spe
meliore pascatur. vale.
macus P 6 simnl — praeturae om, P 1 m, B|tuae P 9 longiora — differantur uncU ineluai
siduitas sermonis F, adsld///////////// P 20 quoque studium] F, qi/////////// P dominus et F
frater tuus] /7, frater meus P, fra/////u8 P 21 aemul/// P
Q. AvRKLivs Stmmachvs. 23
178
SYMMACUl EPISTVLAE
V a. 899—402.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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