Letter 9009: The moment a suitable occasion presented itself, I wrote without delay to express how much I miss you — so that,...
We are bound by the duty of senatorial games, the necessity of which requires the purchase of racing horses. For the sake of this matter, therefore, I have sent my most intimate friends to Spain, that they may buy four-horse teams [quadrigae] from the noblest of all the herds. For these men, in the carrying out of their commission, I ask your support, and I declare myself obligated to you by the highest favor, if your authority shall advance a matter that is easy in the doing [...].
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Latin / Greek Original
Senatoriis editionibns convenimnr, quaram necessitas eqnoram cnralium desiderat
emptionem. hnins igitnr rei gratia familiarissimos meos ad Hispaniam misi, ut qua-
drigas ex omni gregnm nobilitate mercentnr. his ad peragenda mandata tunm posco
sufi^raginm snmmoque beneficio profiteor obligandnm, si rem facti/ facilem, sed im-
20 per promoverit.
XXII (XX) a. 399.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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