Letter 3009: You expect longer letters from me.
*<> Expectas a me litteras largiores. delector iudicio tuo; laus enim est ingenii, cum
desideratur ubertas. sed velim tibi verborum copiam displicere. nam quid agat, quo
se vertat, ubi inmoretur cassa rebus oratio ? odi in parvo corpore longa velamina. illa
vestis decenter indutui est, quae non trahit pulverem nec in humum demissa calcatur.
scribe ergo aliquid, quod rescribendo producam; quamquam religione decipior, qui
»s tibi uberes epistulas audeo polliceri. videro, quis sit futurus eventus sententiae tuae.
tu memento non electionem me tibi sed copiam spopondisse. vale.
XI.
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