Letter 2028: Go ahead — judge my decisions in hindsight, as you like, and blame me for the prefecture's complaint that it was...
Argue , nt vis , remm consilia post exitnm et mihi vitio verte, quod contemptum
sni praefectura conquesta est. facile accusatur desertus auxilio; atqne ideo in me
tu recipere malo erroris confessionem, ne aut amicos neglegentiae aut adversatos asperi-
tatis incessam. fuerit fortnnae non conscientiae meae, nt victus viderer, qni necdum
coeperam litigare. at etiam scribis, causis similibns abstinendum. vides, quantum
liceat eventui. oblitus es morum meorum. ego vero solitae verecundiae ignavnm
quoqne iungam timorem et litteris tnis agam gratias, quae me deposita iuris et ami-
15 coram fiducia ad omnium iniuriarum silentium cohortantnr.
XXVmi ante a. 395.
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