Letter 1001: You have constantly urged me to collect and publish the more highly finished of the letters that I may have written.
L To Septicius.
You have constantly urged me to collect and publish the more highly finished of the letters that I may have written. I have made such a collection, but without preserving the order in which they were composed, as I was not writing a historical narrative. So I have taken them as they happened to come to hand. I can only hope that you will not have cause to regret the advice you gave, and that I shall not repent having followed it; for I shall set to work to recover such letters as have up to now been tossed on one side, and I shall not keep back any that I may write in the future. Farewell..
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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