Letter 5023: I can hardly bear the departure of friends, but when they head off to be in your company, I feel as though they were...
Inpatienter amicorum soleo perferre discessum, sed eos, qui ad praesentiam tuam
relicta urbe contendunt, ad me credo venturos. quid quod sequestrata adfectione in-
video tecum futuris? soli enim bona praesentiae tuae capient, quomm communis mihi 25
fructus esse deberet. wtut est tamen ista condicio, fratres nostros Celsum atque Nicia-
num probabiles viros non invitus emisi, certus aliquid ad nos ex fabulis atque actibus
tuis eorum relatione redituram. qnos ut mature urbi studiisque restituas, vicissim de
te postulo. nam fsi te ab ac petitione dissimulem, videor eomm peregrinationem non
tuae detulisse reverentiae, sed meo praestitisse fastidio. ao
1 q. auf. symmacbi. u/ oxplic. iiii. ad efesti//// incip eiusdem ad neot///// P, symmaohus ad neothe-
rium F, om. V 3 om. VF 4 reditum P 1 m. /nim P 5 nancta P 7 deplo>
matis P 1 m. VF 8 magna P 1 m. 9 meos F meum] meus VF in gaudio F do-
lore P 1 m. 10 tantumj tamen V
lem VAf, nam nisi te hac petitionc destimulem ego
xxxxi (XXX vmi).
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