Letter 2051: We'll be setting out for home tomorrow, God willing — which you already knew.
Iter in patriam diis auspicibus ordiemur, quod tibi et ante conpertum est. sed
religio monuit, ut diei quoque certior reddereris. cras igitur viam nobis disce relegen-
dam, et quia promissi servantissimus es, fac memineris ad publicum sollemne con- 20
tendere.
LI ante a. 395.
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