Letter 6049: You sent me no letter with your servant, it's true.
Nullas quidem nobis per hominem vestrum litteras detulistis, sed mihi silentium
unanimitatis vestrae nequaquam licuit aemulari, vel quod ita sollicitudo, quam de me t5
non frustra geritis, postulabat, vel quod me in officia scriptionis amor verus inpellit.
gratum vobis fuisse factum meum, rescripti vicissitudo testabitur.
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XXXXVII (XXXXVni) a. 397.
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