Letter 6002: Your letter brightened my day, and your words doubled the pleasure of our household's birthday celebration.
Hilaratns est mihi dies litteris vestris et festivitatem nataliciam domns nostrae
desideratns sermo geminavit. sed decnrsa paginae lectione conrugavit frontem mihi
adiecta subscriptio, qnae vos de peculio Petroniae agitari iurgiis indicavit. arbitror
tamen, si Marcianae sororis vestrae non sit clauda promissio, successionis ambignnm
10 domestice posse removeri, cnm ad examen menm, qnod ipsa delegit, docnmenta negotii
miseritis. qnae autem capita quaestionnm pars adversa commoveat, subdita enumera-
tione signavi, ut sancta nnanimitas vestra informata oppositis invicem pro se respon-
denda meditetur. vale.
m.
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