Letter 1021: Even if I could honor you with letters every single day, I still wouldn't feel I'd done my duty as the situation...
Ego etsi continais litteris honorem tuum celebrare possem, non satis mihi viderer,
proquam res postulat, fungi debitum meum: tantum abest, ut operam tibi adsiduitatis
exprobrem. sed ut hoc meae verecundiae conpetit, item tuae humanitatis est stu- 5
dium nostrum pari gratia sustinere. animadverte, quo tendat summa verborum meorum :
iamdudum nihil tribuis, quod legamus. totum me, itquies, emancipavit sibi cura
praetorii. verum est: potiris merito summa iudicia, sed maximas ingenii tui vires
fortuna magna non onerat. proinde etiam his rebus adtende, quae ita occupatis nihil
molestiae adferunt, ut ipsas molestias plerumque solentur. vale. 10
XVIin pmi) a. 378.
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