Letter 2053: My return and arrival in the city -- which is always welcome to everyone -- did not match our expectations in terms...
Reditns ac recni*8as in patriam) qni semper omnibus gratus est, festinationi no-
strae nequaquam pro eccpectatione respondit. causas si desideratis, accipite. \x\m pri-
5 mum , ut communia domesticis praeferamus , rem frumentariam nostrae urbis nulla
auget invectio. spes ipsa, quae in adversis alere animos solet, recusat effugium pol-
liceri, cum sterilis annus ne semina quidem terris commissa reddiderit. dehinc ut 2
apud vos familiarem curam loqnamur, urget Ostiense praedium nostrum militaris in-
pressio. nos legum inane nomen vocamns. dii viderint exitum causae. interea mor-
10 demur non metu damni sed aequitatis iniuria. collegarum tractatus, qui me exci-
verat, aetemis principibus legandorum in Africam virorum reddidit optionem. fcessat
ergo patrum deliberatio non vocemur.
LUI ante a. 395.
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