Letter 2087: I feel as though I am traveling with you whenever your vivid narrative describes your comings and goings.
I feel as though I am traveling with you whenever your vivid narrative describes your comings and goings. Your letters are so detailed and so engaging that the distance between us seems to vanish. Continue this habit, I beg you -- it is the next best thing to your actual presence. When we cannot share the road, we can at least share the telling of it.
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Latin / Greek Original
Peregrinari mihi tecnm videorf si qnando cnrsns ac recnrsns tuos Incnlentus nar-
rator insinnas. ita cogitationes nostras religione allicis et nitore sermonis inlnminas^
ut quidquid explicat adfatus tnus, id noster qnodammodo visat adfectns. pro qna re
2 firmam valetudinem tnam tenemus reditumqne felicem votis iugiter conprecamnr. nam 10
qni amorem in nos tunm aequiperare non possumus, solvimus votis, quod nequimns
officiis. salve igitur, mi domine inimitabilis , nosque et generaliter cum ceteris, ut
nunc faciS; et speciatim cum carissimis, nt solebas, his mnneribus oris ac pectoris tui
benignns inlustra.
LXXXVII (LXXXVI) a. 382—383. 15
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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