Letter 6035: Your brother has been deeply grieved by the loss of his tutor and only recently started listening to those trying to...
Your brother, long stricken in spirit with grief over the loss of his teacher, has begun to lend an ear to those who console him, and his sorrow has gravely wounded me too, over and above the consideration that troubles us about choosing an instructor. If, therefore, it is agreeable, let us request by a joint letter from the illustrious prefect Hadrianus the rhetorician Gallus, whom our friend Eusebius recently put forward, so that the talent of our dear children, set on the path of advancement, may not be abandoned. Both the labor and the expense of the coming public display weigh upon me. For in arranging the prizes, although I have a sufficiently ample supply in the number of garments, I still find that some things are lacking for the equipage. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Frater vester diu animi adfectus dolore ob amissum magistrum coepit aurem 2»
praebere solantibus, cuius maestitudo me quoque graviter sauciavit praeter cogitatio-
nem, quae nos de eligendo praeceptore sollicitat. si igitur placet, communibus litteris
ab inlustri viro praefecto Hadriano Gallum rhetorem, quem proxime Eusebius noster
ingesserat, postulemus, ne pignorum nostrorum indoles in profectu posita deseratur.
me futurae editionis et labor et sumptus exercet. in disponendis enim praemiis, quam- so
quam numero vestium satis adfluam, nonnulla adhuc deesse apparatui deprehendo. vale.
noscentiam] Juretu8j innocentiam P 1 m., in notitiam P 2 m.
31 afluam P l m.
XXXV (XXXVI) a. 398.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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