Letter 5027: You do well to console my leisure with your steady stream of letters.
Facis, ut decet, quod otium meum scriptorum assiduitate solaris. siquidem ex tno
amore coniectas, iucundum mihi esse munus, quod ex tuo sanctissimo ac luculento ore
profieiscitur. refero igitur vicem magis ad testimonium gratiae quam ad aequiparan-
dum officium, quo me agnosco devinctum. sed hoc ipso arbitror digniorem me esse i»
conloquio crebriore, quod hanc palmam tibi reddo quasi victus fenore litterarum.
XXXXVI (XXXXim) a. 393.
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