Letter 7066: I won't let you go without hearing from me, and your silence won't lead me to imitate it.
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus→Unknown|c. 395 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
friendship
Exsortem te sermonis mei esse non patior neqne ab scribendi perseverantia si-
lentii tui imitatione deducar. scio enim plemmqne non amicitiae neglegentia sed ob-
VF strepentibus curis officia retardari. velim | credas et in postemm cnram s
capessas integrandi istius muneris, quod ipse iam pridem moraris ero
promptior litteris exhibendis, qui ne nunc quidem tempero, cum gratiam mutnam non
reporto.
cxvm.
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Exsortem te sermonis mei esse non patior neqne ab scribendi perseverantia si-
lentii tui imitatione deducar. scio enim plemmqne non amicitiae neglegentia sed ob-
VF strepentibus curis officia retardari. velim | credas et in postemm cnram s
capessas integrandi istius muneris, quod ipse iam pridem moraris ero
promptior litteris exhibendis, qui ne nunc quidem tempero, cum gratiam mutnam non
reporto.
cxvm.
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