Letter 1068: Full of hope since you announced your forthcoming visit, I'm putting the spur to those already hurrying, and I ask...
10 Bonae spei plenns, postquam mibi adventus vestri fecistis indicium, calcar qnod-
dam snppingo properantibus, et in eam rem tuum mnnus inploro, ut pareptum studia
bortator adceleres. stabit apud me memoria beneficii tni nec umquam tacita erit, si
fratmm delegata cnraveris. vale.
LXm (LVH) antea. 381.
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1. Whether I am to regard it as the effect of what I may call your flattering language, or whether the thing be really so, is a point which I am unable to decide. For the impression was sudden, and I am not yet resolved how far it deserves to be believed.