Letter 3025: ...while others track scent-trails with the keen noses of their hounds.
2 odbra vestigia canum sagacitate disquirunt. sed haec omnia, si nobiscum ageres,
plus placerent. tenet te eruditio Scaevolarum, dum forenses ra6ulas pervigil doctor »o
instituis. quare accurre pemiciter, ut feriarum reliquiae laboris fastidium tergeant, \el
certe, si tibi ergastuli istius amor tantus est, adesto inpiger, ut ad dicendum promptior
revertaris. vale.
xxmi.
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