Letter 2003: Wanting to know how your family's business is going — that's the mark of a loyal and honorable concern.
Fratmm negotia velle cognoscere pia et honesta cnratio est. libens igitnr re-
spondebo quaesitis. Coram multo imbre pervenimns. hic triduum conmorati ad levan-
lu dnm laborem Terracinam prius et postridie Formias continnato petemns excursu. fors
fuat, an possit bidno tenus eiusdem nos praedii annona retinere. vos interea peracto,
quod Romae agere destinastis, Appiam diis auspicibus inchoate ea dimensione, nt iter
nostmm proximis vestigiis nrgueatis. vale.
mi a. 383.
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