Letter 7066: I won't let you go without hearing from me, and your silence won't lead me to imitate it.
I do not allow you to have no share in my conversation, nor shall I be led, by imitating your silence, away from my perseverance in writing. For I know that duties are most often delayed not through any neglect of friendship, but because cares clamor against us. I would have you believe this, and that for the future you will take up the care of resuming this office, which you yourself have long since been putting off. I shall be the readier to furnish letters, I who even now do not hold back, although I receive no reciprocal favor in return.
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Latin / Greek Original
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.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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