Letter 3060: The sight of your family will certainly fill you with joy.

The sight of your own people will indeed satisfy your every joy, but I reckon that this gladness can be heightened if our conversation too is joined to it. For although domestic blessings are dear to you above all others, the care of friends rightly claims for itself the next place. Therefore, when your pious bonds of kinship have satisfied your longing, let your eyes be turned to our letters also; the sum of which is this, that you may learn I am well. For I wish to draw you out from the conversations of your own people by a longer page. [Letter] LXXVI, before the year 386. To Promotus. Two welcome things come to me, as often as letters are requested of me: both that I bestow upon you the honor of a greeting, and that I render the service of a recommendation to those who ask it. Therefore, when [...]

Satisfaciet qnidem tibi ad omne gandinm conspectns tnorum, sed ego hanc hilaritu- dinem cnmnlari posse coniecto, si noster sermo quoqne inngatur. nam cnm prae ceteris tibi domestica bona cara sint, proximnm sibi gradnm inre amicomm cnra de- fendit. ergo nbi desiderio tno piae necessitndines satisfecerint , ad nostras qnoqne 20 litteras ocnli conferantnr; qnaram haec snmma est, nt me yalere cognoscas. uolo enim te a conloqniis tnornm pagina longiore prodncere. LXXVI ante a. 386. AD PROMOTVM. Duo mihi grata proyeninnt, qnotiens a me litterae postnlantur, et quod te honore 25 salntationis inpertio, et qnod operam commendatiouis praesto poscentibns. cnm igitnr