Letter 7052: I know you both want and expect my letters, since custom dictates that the person setting out should open the exchange.

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusUnknown|c. 389 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|AI-assisted
friendship

I know you both want and expect my letters, since custom dictates that the person setting out should open the exchange. So here is my opening salvo -- and I have no doubt that once the signal is given, you won't be slow to reply. Farewell.

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Latin / Greek Original

Scio et desiderari et expectari a vobis litteras meas, qaia moris est, nt munus
huiusmodi a proficiscentibus inchoetur. auspicium ergo vobis altemandae inter nos
salutationis emitto nequaquam dubitans, tamquam signo dato ad respondendum vos 5
desides non futuros.

LXXVI hieme 393/4.

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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