Letter 2069: A brief message is necessary when it is entrusted to someone in a hurry.
A brief message is necessary when it is entrusted to someone in a hurry. Therefore, it is enough for duty and the shortness of time that I fulfill the honor of a greeting to you. I should not demand a reply in return, since I expect it anyway from a friend as reliable as you. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
20 Brevem necesse est esse sermonem, qni properanti repente committitur. quare et
officio satis est et brevitati temporis congruit, ut circa te salutationis honore perfungar.
vicissitndinem vero effiagitare non debeo, quam mihi arbitror a viro amicitiae servan-
tissimo etiam sine admonitione referendam. vale.
LXVrai (LXVra) ante a. 395.
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Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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