Letter 9015: While you are busy relieving the hardships of the provincials, a heavier blow has fallen on the Apulians.
While you are remedying the misfortunes of the provincials and extending a helping hand to those in distress, a graver calamity has come upon the Apulians, from whom, on account of an empty rumor of abundance, grain is being demanded that must be taken away from the province and that will not be available for the use of the commonwealth. For when, with the year sloping toward winter, will it be possible for so great a crop to be brought to ripeness? If, then, you have the means of speedily advancing your journey toward Campania, let me know it [...], so that I may wait for you a little while; or, if some greater reason has altered your promise, disclose that very thing to my notice at once, so that our Symmachus, after idling long on the shores of Formiae, may hasten back with me to his studies. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Dum provincialium mederis adversis et salutarem laborantibus manum porrigis,
gravior Apulos casus incessit, a quibus ob inanem famam fecunditatis frumenta pos- i5
cuntur et detrahenda provinciae et reip. usui non futura. quando enim in hiemem
vergente anno poterit maturari tantae frugis si igitur tibi suppetit, facul-
tates
xxvmiA.
itineris celeriter ad Campaniam promovendi, scire me fa- 2u
cito, ut te paulisper opperiar; aut si promissum maior causa mutavit, id ipsum noti-
tiae meae protinus pande, ut Symmachus noster diu in Formianis litoribus otiatus
propere mecum ad studia revertatur. vale.
XXX (XXVII).
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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