Letter 6013: The frequency of my earlier letters has used up everything worth writing.
The frequency of my earlier letters has used up everything worth writing. All that's left now is the dutiful formality of a greeting. And really, if there were anything worth putting on paper, it would be better entrusted to a messenger in person. The pen should only come out when the person carrying the message can't handle verbal instructions. For now, if you think anything worth knowing has come up, you'll learn it more fully from the bearer than from any written excursion of mine. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
AdBiduitas epistularum saperiorum scribenda consnmpsit; sola nunc superest sa-
Intationis religiosa generalitas. et sane^ si qua suppeterent paginis persequenda, com-
5 meanti rectius crederentur. tunc enim stilo indulgendum est, cum recipiendis man-
datis proficiscentium persona non sufficit; nunc si quid scitu dignum putabitis, sine
nostri sermonis excursu plenius a commeante discetis. vale.
Xmi (XV) a. 396.
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