Letter 6002: Your letter brightened my day, and your words doubled the pleasure of our household's birthday celebration.
Your letter brightened my day, and your words doubled the pleasure of our household's birthday celebration. But as I read further, the appended note furrowed my brow — it informed me that you're embroiled in a dispute over Petronia's estate. I believe, however, that if your sister Marciana's promise isn't hollow, the question of the inheritance can be settled within the family, once you send me the documents of the case for my review (as she herself chose me as arbiter). I've listed below the specific points the opposing side is likely to raise, so that you can prepare your responses in advance. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
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.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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