Roman Letters

Letter 7076: With this first letter, I'm inviting your confidence.

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus→Unknown|c. 398 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|AI-assisted
friendship
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With this first letter, I'm inviting your confidence. Step boldly into the door of our friendship. Your reciprocal courtesy will ensure that the bond I've initiated takes root and flourishes. Farewell.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.

Latin / Greek Original

VF Scriptionis auspicio fiduciam tuam provoco. | quare familiaritatis nostrae aditum 25
securus ingi'edere. vicissitudo officii tui faciet, ut inchoata per me amicitia convalescat.

1 hinc] nnnc V 2 pro] LectiWy om, PV , 4 dignnm uneis inekui arbitrer] Wingendorp^

arbltror PV id innicem V

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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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