Letter 8026: A man who desires your letters cannot remain silent himself, nor should the one who seeks conversation set the...
XXVI. ENNODIVS AVIBNO.
Necesse est, ut qui desiderat scripta uestra non taceat nec
silentii exemplum tribuat qui qui alloquium. iuxta orationum
uestrarum suffragia, quos innocentia et deuotio deo nostro facit
acceptos, meliorem me esse iam sentio, desiderans honorificentia
salutationis inpensa quam bene ualeatis agnoscere, quia post
receptam salutem unicum est solacium bono uestrae prosperitatis
adtolli.
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