Letter 1038: I'm doing exhausting work: I keep writing to someone who keeps not answering.
Plenmn laboris negotium gero, qui conpellare totiens tacitam persevero. contra
nisi instigare pergo atqne excalpere a te aliquid litteramm, gliscet oblivio. sive igitur
» hoc ofGcium meum sedulnm iudices seu molestum, stat sententia honorem tuum cele-
brem praestare colloqniis ; adeo mihi veteris in te amoris nulla discessio est. et merito,
nam amicitiae operam nusquam locavi aeque bene. propterea silentium tuum conque-
ror. &cit enim tenerior adfectio, nt sit querella proclivior. moUis est animus diligentis 2
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