Letter 1045: I'm doing something that suits both your character and my own inclinations: introducing the finest people to your...
Facio rem cum tuis moribus tum meo studio congruentem, ut praestantissimo viro
&inicitia8 optimi cuiusqne conciliem; velut nunc tibi a me traditur philosophiae candi-
^^ clatus, cuius pudorem vel prima facies, cetera bona longus usus expediet. hunc ego
fitls te nollem diligi, ni mereretur probari. sed si bene aestimo, actutum merebitur
&tque ideo diligetur. de hoc nihil amplius. neque enim praeiudicio meo debet astringi,
onius ego expecto iudicium. illud te potius oratum volo, ut in nostri diligentia per-
severes. quod cum efQagito, vereor ne me iniurium putes, qui a te postulem, quod
^^ aponte praestatur. vale.
xxxxn (XXXVI).
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