Letter 6063: Old custom dictates that the person leaving home should send the first letter.
Prisca observantia hunc scribendi ordinem fecit, ut domo profecti officium litte- is
rarii muneris auspicentur. sed longum visum est opperiri unanimitatis tuae litteras,
quarum non arguimus tarditatem, atque ideo mutato usu in hoc munus erupimus.
superest, ut libens rependas, quae inchoare debueras, et provocatus exerceas sa-
nitatis tuae indicem stilum. ipsi in Arabiana domnae filiae .meae expectamus ad-
ventum; licet te etiam, decus nostrum, dierum sollemnium ratio confestim spondeat 20
adfuturum. vale.
LXI (LXII) a. 398.
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