Letter 3048: ...simply put, the situation demands that the discomfort of being away from home should make you appreciate what you...
[...] more quickly; since indeed the situation demands that the hardship of your travels abroad should commend to you a longing for repose.
To Eutropius.
46.
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Latin / Greek Original
citer; siquidem res postulat, ut tibi peregrinationis iniuria desiderium commendet
30 quietis.
AD EVTROPIVM.
XXXXVI.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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