Letter 3058: I don't mind writing to Your Excellency often, even though I've received nothing in return.

[LXX, before the year 399.] It does not weary us to address your excellence often, even though I have received no word from you in return. For of my own accord I answer myself on your behalf, that amid the cares of the camp official duties leave no room for leisured pursuits. And would that the persistence of my greetings might not seem to you an annoyance! It is nearly the case that I should think the favor of correspondence is being repaid to me, if I knew that what I write brings no distaste. [LXXI, before the year 399. To Timasius.] [...]

LXX ante a. 399. Saepe adloqui praestantiam tuam non piget, quamvis nihil invicem sermonis ac- cepi. ipse enira mihi pro te sponte respondeo, quod inter castrenses curas locum ofGcia otiosa non habeant. atque utinam tibi adsiduitas adfatuum meorum non videa- & tur obstrepere! prope est, ut referri mihi litterarum gratiam putem, si sciam, quae scribo, non adferre fastidium. LXXI ante a. 399. AD TIMASIVM.