Letter 7053: It is a pious and traditional custom for quaestorian candidates [young officials sponsoring public games] to send...
It is a pious and traditional custom for quaestorian candidates [young officials sponsoring public games] to send formal gifts to their most distinguished and dearest friends -- and you rightly belong to that number. So on behalf of my son, I present you with an ivory diptych [a hinged writing tablet, the standard commemorative gift] and a small silver basket weighing two pounds. I earnestly hope you'll be pleased to accept this mark of honor. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
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Religiosum atque votivum est, ut a quaestoribus candidatis dona sollemnia potis-
VM simis atque amicissimis offerantur, | quo in numero iure censemini. offero igitur vo- 10
bis ebumeum diptychum et canistellum argenteum librarum duarum filii mei nomine
[quaestorium munus exhibuit] et inpendio precor, ut hanc honorificentiam dignemini
gratanter amplecti. vale.
LXXVn (LXXVI) a. 397?
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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