Letter 2021: Duty suggested I should write, since the person delivering this letter hopes for more from your judgment than from mine.
Ofiicii mei ratio suasit, nt scriberem, quando ea est persona litteras redditura, ut
plus de iudicio tuo quam de meo speret auxilio. itaque omnia, quae mos est litteris
explieare, ipsi potius narranda delego, a quo amplitudo tua, et quae de me cognitu
digna crediderit, et quae ipsins fortuna poscit, accipiet.
10 XXn a. 382—383.
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