Letter 5053: You have opened the door to correspondence late.
Aditum mihi ad scribendnm sero reserastis. vos enim oportuit inchoare libaniina 30
litteramm, quia inveterati moris est, ut qui ad peregrina discedit, alternandis epistulis
10 Sall. Catil. 4, 1.
3 animositas fecit V
aprinos P ^ m. VM a///gere P 10 dedi/A//// P recuao] re//// P qneram V 11 seru/// P
statnerat F probandis V, perblandns F 14 electio F 15 nel grecis F eipost alacri inser. V
nan/i P, nandi V 19 naca/ione P
litteris VM formiam V, formam M 23 antehoc dare V 1 m.y antehac dore V 2 m., hoc ante con-
ferre M bna P l m. 24 cognitam V iam quamqnam] tgo^ iam qnam PV^ grauiter Af
praestet auspicium. ergo absolutus observantiae religione et nunc vobis vicem salu- PVF
tationis rependo et in reliquum, 8i fors obtulerit commeantes, adsiduitatem spondeo
familiarium paginarum, ut vobis possit liquere, non in mea culpa sed in vestra mora
fuisse, quod silui.
5 LXXI (LXVnil).
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