Letter 55: An Invitation. You flee when I pursue you: perhaps in accordance with the laws of love, to make yourself more valuable. Come then, and fill up at last the loss I have suffered by your long delay.
Gregory to Nicobulus, an invitation.
You flee when I pursue you -- perhaps in obedience to the laws of love, to make yourself more precious by your absence. Come, then, and make up at last for the loss I have suffered through your long delay. And if household matters detain you, you may leave again, and so become an even more desired object of longing.
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