Roman Letters

Letter 7048: This letter survives only in fragmentary form, with the manuscript text too damaged to reconstruct reliably.

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus→Macedonius|c. 388 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|From Rome|To Macedonius (recipient)|AI-assisted
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[This letter survives only in fragmentary form, with the manuscript text too damaged to reconstruct reliably.]

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.

Latin / Greek Original

haustas V succum////ebes P /eae P 19 /ustitiam P postulaiiti P 2 m. F^ postulantis M

uale add. VMF

21 om. VMF 22 conspectu VMF 23 uidendi F 25 ex proximo repensabis] Vr, et pro-

ximo ore pensabis P, ex proximo recompensabis nale Af, exprimo repensabis uale F

25»

196 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE

LXVm a. 395.

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Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/qaureliisymmach00seecgoog

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