Letter 4027: ...I am still waiting in suspense for your judgment on those pieces belonging to our togaed nation.
[...the opening of the letter is lost; the surviving text begins mid-sentence] ...your verdict concerning that toga-clad people [i.e. the Romans], and I still hang in suspense, awaiting your judgment; which I wish you to send under oath, since it is fitting that good faith be bound by a sworn pledge, whenever friendship falls under suspicion of mere favor. [The remainder of the manuscript here is taken up by garbled OCR text and editorial apparatus -- lists of variant manuscript readings (PV, VF, M, K) rather than letter content -- and the heading of the following letter, LXVI; none of it constitutes legible, translatable letter text. ...]
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Latin / Greek Original
Aniioehenaium h, l. laiere videntur^ e. g. eo Prosper et Chaerea summatis anthiocensium PV misi V
egrinantis PVy peregrinantibus M 8 secutus PV
10 om. VF 11 copia iam] Mommaen, copiam PV 12 muneris VF 13 laudaclano-
rnm K(/^), laudatianorum F deploret VF 14 pretium tuum quod V 15 in remissis VF
remunerabo F, renuncialK) V 16 syngrafam PV 17 potissimus P
26 satU Plm. 27 ediU P 1 m. 28 bis PKAf
LIBER nn. 121
tentiam de illis gentis togatae adhue expectatione indieii tui pendeo; quod volo iura- PVM
tu8 ^ittas, quia convenit vinciri sacramento fidem, si quando amicitia in suspieionem
venit gratiae.
LXVi(LXVI).
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/qaureliisymmach00seecgoog
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