Newburyport, Massachusetts, January, 1841.
THE SYRIAN LETTERS.
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WRITTEN PROM DAMASCUS, BY SERVILIUS PRISCUS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, TO HIS KINSMAN, CORNELIUS DRUSUS, RESIDING AT ATHENS, AND BUT NOW TRANSLATED.
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Damascus.
Servilius to Cornelius—Greeting:
Your reply to my last epistle, my dear Cornelius, was the more pleasing, because so unexpected.
The speed of its transmission shows the great measure of our obligation to the sagacity and enterprise of Constantine. For who, until our emperor bent to it the considerations of his active mind, ever knew of such rapidity of communication?