Letter 448: I have seen the arrows in your speeches, and I would not say "keep shooting like that.

The man who knows himself guilty of failing in his duty ought to apologize before he dares to send greetings — for...

You have been granted the chance to see our city's representatives without even stirring from home.

If I were to write at length all the causes which, up to the present time, have kept me at home, eager as I have been to set out to see your reverence, I should tell an interminable story. I say nothing of illnesses coming one upon another, hard winter weather, and press of work, for all this has been already made known to you. Now, for my sins,...

The excellent Julianus seems to get some good for his private affairs out of the general condition of things. Everything nowadays is full of taxes demanded and called in, and he too is vehemently dunned and indicted. Only it is a question not of arrears of rates and taxes, but of letters.

Either you are joking in your letter or you are completely out of touch with reality.