Letter 2050: I haven't felt like writing until now — not with the complaints of my various ailments making such a racket, and I...
Up to now it has not been agreeable to us to write, the complaints of our infirmities clamoring against it, which we refrain from making known. Hence it has come about that your addresses have outrun our duty. After, by divine aid, we have begun to enjoy the blessing of health, our concern for correspondence returns. Receive, then, this letter, late indeed, yet in keeping with your wish and your purpose; and as it has been long deferred, so it will recompense the longing for it with a better token. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Scribere hucusque non libuit obstrepentibus inbecillitatum querellis, quas indicare
vitamus. hinc factum est, ut officium nostrum tua adloquia praevenirent. postquam
divina ope sanitatis bono frui coepimus , redit cura sermonis. sume igitur litteras
seras quidem sed voto tuo et proposito congruentes; quae ut diu dilatae sunt, ita de-
siderium sui indicio meliore pensabunt. vale. i6
L ante a. 395.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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