Letter 6072: You tried a clever trick to excuse your silence: you claimed you were holding back bad news as long as things were...
Eleganti commento silentiam yestram pai^are volaistis: allegata est enim caa-
10 tela tristiam nantioram, qaamdia secanda saccederent, at ea, qaae intermissio scrip-
tionis ante celaverat, laetioribas indidis proderentar. sed nobis et illa per nantios
incognita non faerant, et haec sera admodam visa sant. aagebat enim ramoram li-
centiam saspicio cessantis ofGcii. et tamen sascensere non possamas, postqaam gra-
tia praesentium litteraram memoriam praeteriti doloris exemit. modo memento caram
15 stili inter praecipua et prima sortiri, ne huias exempli recordatio maiores denao nobis
adferat metus, dam credimas sab expectatione melioram rursas aliqaa adversa reti-
ceri. vale.
LXX (LXXI).
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