Letter 1109: Whatever generosity you showed to those who were present might seem merely the expected tribute of their attendance.
Qnidquid in praesentes muneris contulisti, officio eorum videtur esse delatum:
nos, qui consulatui tuo varia occupatione defuimus, amicitiae honore adfecti sumus
15 non mercede praesentiae. ago igitur tibi pro oblatione consulari gratias uberes, sed
pro bona mente maiores, et nisi verecundia tua verbis meis poneret modum, latius
evagarer; atque ideo erit de hoc sermo interim parcus, memoria vero prolixior.
Cnn (LXXXXVin) ante a. 381.
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