Letter 2077: Your love for Domitius is well known and firmly established, which spares me the labor of commending him.
Amor tuus in Domitium notus et validus ademit mihi commendandi eius laborem,
pro quo hoc tantum dixisse suffecerit, mihi quoque eundem prisca familiaritate con-
iungi. qnae res illi incrementum patrocinii tui, ut spero, praestabit. probabiliorem
15 quippe eum tibi faciet conmiunis similitudo iudicii. interea nos ursis saepe promissis 2
et diu speratis sub ipso articulo muneris indigemus. vix enim paucos catulos mace-
ratos inedia et labore snscepimus. et de leonibus fama conticuit, quorum adventus
posset efficere, ut ursorum defectum congressio Libyca repensaret. nnciam panis ma- 3
litiose et temere restitutam spontanea voluntas populi redegit in copiam conditomm.
20 tuta igitur omnia atque secura sunt, quae animum tuum iure mordebant. atque uti-
nam soIIicitudinQS quaestorias par successuum felicitas mitigasset! vale.^
LXXVn (LXXVI) a. 393.
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To my kindred brother Severus,
Could this have been hoped or expected by us, that now by our brother Severus we should have to claim the answer which your love has not yet written to us, so long and so impatiently desiring your reply? Why have we been doomed through two summers (and these in the parched land of Africa) to bear this thirst? What more can I say?
I received your letter in which you again accuse Fortune of mistreating you.
Your boy came to me asking for a letter.
Since letters are owed to you by two of us, part of the debt is repaid with generous interest when you see one of us...