Letter 6046: We tried to keep the crocodiles -- the ones displayed at the theater show -- alive for your visit.
Crocodillos theatrali spectaculo publicatos in praesentiam vestram servare tempta-
vimus, sed perseverante inedia, quae illos per dies quinquaginta producta macerabat,
secundis ludis congressionum more confecti sunt. duos etiam nnnc spirantes in ve-
25 strum diflferemus adventum . licet eos cibi abstinentia longum vivere posse non spon-
deat. vale.
xxxxini (xxxxv).
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If γριπίζειν is the same thing as to gain, and this is the meaning of the phrase which your sophistic ingenuity has got from the depths of Plato, consider, my dear sir, who is the more hard to be got from, I who am thus impaled by your epistolary skill, or the tribe of Sophists, whose craft is to make money out of their words. What bishop ever ...
As long as the rumors are still circulating and nothing is settled, stay calm and enjoy your leisure.
To my Brother.
There are those who say the Church has no power to forgive sins committed after baptism.
You're quite comfortable, I see, neglecting to write back — you know this kind of offense will go unpunished.