Roman Letters

Letter 7017: This letter survives only in fragmentary form, with the manuscript text too damaged to reconstruct reliably.

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus→Attalus|c. 374 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|From Rome|To Attalus (recipient)|AI-assisted
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[This letter survives only in fragmentary form, with the manuscript text too damaged to reconstruct reliably.]

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.

Latin / Greek Original

//////////////enno P 6 legationem] (77), ////////e P prlncipis] (Z7), prin///// P 1 cune/a P

8 nuntiatur] luretus, nuntietur P

mis et] Leetiw, et om, P

LIBER Vn. 181

XVI.

Text source →View original manuscript →

Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-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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