Letter 7029: If you had answered my letter, you would have lightened your own conscience.
If you had replied to my letter, you would have eased your conscience of its burden; as it is, by your silence you have helped ours. For courtesies repaid grant me joy, courtesies refused grant me victory. And I know that you could do out of your abundance what we strain for with much sweat. But since you begrudge good words to your readers, lest I be thought to do violence to your stinginess, I swallow my loss. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Si respondisses epistulae meae, levasses onere conscientiam tnam: nunc nostram
tacitumitate iuvisti. repensa f nim officia laetitiam mibi praestant, negata victoriam.
^et scio ex abundanti posse te facere, quod nos multo sudore destringimus. sed quia
invides bona verba lectoribus, ne vim facere existimer avaritiae tuae, dispendium
meum devoro. vale. lo
AD MACEDONIVM.
XXVI a. 397?
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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