Letter 4009: The opportunity of a reliable carrier has given me a chance to pay you my respects by letter.
The opportunity of a reliable carrier has given me a chance to pay you my respects by letter. I urge you to make the most of such occasions yourself, so that our correspondence flourishes as our friendship deserves. With news of my well-being now in your hands, I ask in return for an update on yours — since the exchange of such reports is the best consolation for absence. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
LIBER Illl. 107
XXVI.
AD PROTADIVM. PVMF
Amplissima redundo laetitia, cum video litterariis officiis meis honorem parilem
non negari, atque ideo exercendi stili amore destimulor. neque enim fas est torpere
5 studium , quod aequa benignitas conpensatione gratiae muneratur. plura vellem , sed
verecundiam tuam nimio laudis excursu non oportet onerari. vale et amicitiam, sicuti
facis, in exemplum tuere. nos etsi elegantia sermonis inpares sumus, constantia reli-
gionis pares esse nitemur.
xxvn.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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