Letter 5065: The management of our estates demands constant attention -- a truth that every landowner learns through hard experience.
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148 SYMMACHI EPI8TVLAE
LXXXI (LXXVmi).
PF^W SYMMACHVS HELPIDIO.
Cum saepe occasionibus ad scribeDdum utar iucognitis, committi in amicitiam puto,
si doraesticis videar abstinere. libens igitur A^rio bonestissimo viro cnltori tuo nuntiam .
sospitatis meae paginam dedi, cui honorificentiam salutationis adiungo; quae sola, et ^
cum dicitur, et cum vicissim refertur, munia familiaris explet officii.
LXXXII (LXXX) a. 399.
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