By Michael Trapp
A number of letters live on from the traditional international. Their diversity is in a similar fashion huge: legitimate and personal, literary and non-literary, philosophical and mundane. a few have been written via famous literary figures, resembling Ovid and Pliny, others have been written by way of kings and emperors, whereas many continue to exist from the pens of differently nameless figures from the provinces. This quantity presents a range, with translation, geared toward illustrating this wide variety and throws gentle on many facets of historic existence in addition to delivering an invaluable number of fabric for these drawn to historical epistolography.
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Quid, mihi cum dederis ingentia pignora, cumque per numeros omnes hoc tueare caput, quod tua me raro solatur epistola, peccas, remque piam praestas, sed mihi uerba negas? hoc, precor, emenda: quod si correxeris unum, nullus in egregio corpore naeuus erit. pluribus accusem, fieri nisi possit, ut ad me littera non ueniat, missa sit ilia tamen. di faciant, ut sit temeraria nostra querela, teque putem falso non meminisse mei. quod precor, esse liquet: neque enim mutabile robur credere me fas est pectoris esse tui.
Let me tell you that Carpus has come here in his wanderings and Dios has turned up in the army, and I have received six denarii on his behalf. M y mother and father and brothers send you greetings, and you should know that everything is going thoroughly well and good at home. Best wishes to Aphrodisia and Isityche. Best wishes to centurion Arius and his family, and Saturninus the scribe and his, and Centurion Capito and his, and lieutenant Cassius and his, and lieutenant Tyrannius and his, and Sallustius and his, and Terentius the pilot, and Fronto and his family, and Sempronius Italicus, and Publicius, and Severinus, and your colleague Marcellus, and Lucius.
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