Letter 5054: I delight in the regular frequency of your letters and draw abundant joy from this gift.
I delight in the regular frequency of your letters and draw abundant joy from this gift. Each one arrives like a visit from a friend -- brief, perhaps, but welcome beyond measure. Let us keep this rhythm, for the steadiness of our correspondence is itself a form of constancy. In an inconstant world, the reliable arrival of a friend's letter is a small miracle.
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Latin / Greek Original
Sermonis vestri adsiduitate delector et abunde ex eo munere usurpo laetitiam.
quod enim vel vestri animi specimen vel mei desiderii solamen potest esse praeclarius,
quam ut apud me in dies singulos meritorum vestrorum cultus augescat? amicitia
10 enim, quae celebratur officiis, numquam certo fine contenta est; atque ideo decet vos
in deferendis alloquiis effici promptiores, cum ad solvendam vicissitudinem non probetis
immemorem.
AD LICINIVM. PVM
LXXII (LXX).
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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