Letter 1056: For my part, I'm secure enough in our friendship to take it in stride if someone who loves me slips up.
Ego quidem secums amicitiae tuae aequi boniqne facio, si quid in me ab amante
i& peccatnr; sed tnos mores, quibns nihil desit ad landem, dedecet officii neglegentia.
qneri me opinaris, quod nihil scribas, et refellere mendacium paras, quia te aliquid
scripsisse meministi. ego vero minimum animi angerer, si taceres, prae nt hoc est,
qnod mibi et patri nnas atqne eas oppido breves litteras detulisti. ita tibi ambo digni
Bingnlis paginis non videmur? tui, inqnies, honoris interfuit, nt iungereris parenti. 2
20 alia snnt, quae cnm illo nobis vel communia opto vel paria; amor mihi meo nomine
deferatur. abstine igitur epistulis, quae sunt instar edicti; facessat omne fastidium,
ex qno nascitur cura conpendii. sed longnm de his loqni cautio est, ne tibi molestior
sit proiixitas qnerellae nostrae, quam mihi brevitas epistulae tuae. qnod snperest,
deos qnaeso, nt nos plenos gandii qnam primum revisas. facile erit angustias scrip-
3s torum tuomm multiloqnio repensare. vale.
LI(XXXXV) a. 383?
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