Letter 1058: I'm no less pleased that you liked my speech than that the Senate — the better part of humanity — heard it with...
Orationem meam tibi esse conplacitam nihilo setius gandeo, qnam qaod eam
secanda existimatione pars melior bumani generis senatns aadivit. adiecisti sacramenti
pondns et in bona verba iurasti, at qui scires in suspicionem gratiae venire amantium 6
iudicata. nam ubi certa est amicitia, ibi fides laudis incertior. ergo secums examinis
PVM tui nihil moror sententias ceterorum. quid si adfuisses | tam bonae voluntatis auditor?
ne ego digito, ut aiunt, supera conyexa tetigissem. erit alias fortasse nobis optatior
praesentiae tuae copia. nunc testimonio epistulae tuae fruimur, tunc adiumento fayoris
utemur. vale. lo
LHI (XXXXVH) ante a. 385.
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