Letter 3062: You haven't replied to my earlier letters either, but it was my duty to write again rather than waste such a...

You have not, indeed, made any return to my earlier letter, yet it was a duty of mine to send my writings twice over, lest I should be cheated of so trustworthy an opportunity, especially since our mutual friend Auxentius judged that some measure of favor would accrue to him from my letters. For that reason I ought not to commend him to you, since you have been accustomed to be his witness in your own estimation rather than before others.

Nec quidem prioribus litteris meis vicissitudinem reddidisti, sed mei officii fuit scripta geminare, ne tam fida occasione fraudarer, maxime cum amicns communis 10 Hom. II. Vmi 185. ac Pr 6 humani generis F 7 quod ibi F, quoniam tibi F aequare tamen PF, aequare. mi- Tor tamen editio Veneta 9 moris P, moris F seribe: inter rauca cornua et armorum strepitus 30 om, F 94 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE PF Auxentius accessurum stbi aliquid gratiae ex meis litteris iudicaret. quem tibi prop- terea eommendare non debeo, quia illi [apud te potius, quam] apud alios testis esse consnesti. LXXVni ante a. 386.