Letter 2021: Duty suggested I should write, since the person delivering this letter hopes for more from your judgment than from mine.
The duty of my office persuaded me to write, since the person who will deliver this letter is one who hopes for help more from your judgment than from my own. And so all the things that it is customary to set forth in a letter I instead entrust to him to relate, from whom your Eminence will learn both what he has thought worthy of your knowledge concerning me, and what his own circumstances demand.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ofiicii mei ratio suasit, nt scriberem, quando ea est persona litteras redditura, ut
plus de iudicio tuo quam de meo speret auxilio. itaque omnia, quae mos est litteris
explieare, ipsi potius narranda delego, a quo amplitudo tua, et quae de me cognitu
digna crediderit, et quae ipsins fortuna poscit, accipiet.
10 XXn a. 382—383.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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