Letter 1008: I'm in good spirits now that you've remembered your promise and set out.
Bono animo sumus, cum viam promissi memores inchoastis. nunc properato opus
est, ut dum anni tempus calet, autumni bona raptim fruamur. his quippe mensibus 20
Campania nitet agri ubere et arbusti honore* Baiae imbre raro, sole modico tempe-
2 rantur, .mensae ab edulibus copiosae sunt, quibus tu amicorum catervas minaris. sed
mihi honestae multitudinis nulla minatio est, et si bis tanto plures, quam scribis, ad-
fuerint, frugem bonam feceris. non deerit, quo famem polluant ; nam comitibus vestris
utpote sobriis caedundae saginae cura posterior est. quousque longum loquor? mitto 25
verba, rem flagito. occasionem rapere prudentis est. si quid dilationis itiner/ demi-
tur, mora otii repensatur. vale.
Vm ante a. 376.
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