Letter 7053: It is a pious and traditional custom for quaestorian candidates [young officials sponsoring public games] to send...
It is a matter of religious duty and of vow that the customary gifts be offered by quaestors-designate to their most powerful and most beloved friends, in whose number you are rightly counted. I therefore offer you an ivory diptych and a small silver basket of two pounds in my son's name [who has discharged the office of quaestor], and I earnestly pray that you may deign to embrace this token of honor with gratitude. 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
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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