Letter 3025: ...while others track scent-trails with the keen noses of their hounds.
...while others track scent-trails with the keen noses of their hounds. But all of this would be more enjoyable if you were here. Instead, you're buried in Scaevola's legal commentaries [Quintus Mucius Scaevola, the famous Roman jurist], training sleepless students for the courtroom.
So hurry here, and let what's left of the holiday scrub away the staleness of your work. Or if you're really that devoted to your classroom prison, at least come refresh yourself so you'll go back sharper for the job. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
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.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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