Letter 6062: Your first letter, quickly followed by a second, had given me some hope of your return.
Anteriores litterae tuae, quas mox aliae consecntae sunt, spem mihi aliquatenus
reditus tui fecerant ; secundae promissa vacuarunt, ita ut post multas causas negationis
meo consilio sequenda committeres. sed ego cogitans primo filiae meae contnrbatam
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170 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE
P valetQdinem , quae spoliari Bolacio tuo non potest, dehinc stomachi tni inbecillitatem,
quam esse inparem scribis itineri promovendo, tunc consilium amici patemi otiam
praeferentis , dehine expectationem inlustris viri, quem diu existimas afuturum, prae-
terea interpretationes hominum, qui te, ut ais, opinabantur munus publicum recepisse
2 in occasionem negotiorum tuorum , permissam mihi deliberationem vobis refundo. ini- s
quum est enim tot oppositis quaestionibus obnoxiam fieri sententiam meam et fidem
suadentis incertis futurorum casibus obligari. interea constituendae rei dies existimo
prorogandos et epistulam tuam magistratui tantisper reddere temperavi: primo qoia
reverentiae nuda est, dehinc quia causas negationis infra devotionis s tulit,
et quod nossem pluribus legenda, quae scripseras. volo igitur, ut reverentia cumula- lo
tiore et gravioribus querellis excusationem tuam munias, si voluntas manserit laboris
et itineris deprecandi. vale.
LX (LXI).
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