Letter 6081: When your boy delivered a single letter, he insisted I write back immediately, as if he were about to rush straight...
25 Cum mihi puer vester unam epistulam reddidisset, ut rescriberem protinus, tam-
quam mox ad vos reditums incubuit. sed ut didici, ipse ad ulteriora contendens mi-
mica usus est techna, ut paginam nostram comes eius Rusticus reportaret. ille alte-
ram nunc regressus accepit. ridere vos arbitror, quod servili circumscriptus stropha
pro sorte simplici duplum solverim. nam callidus vemula, quod semel pertulit, bis
30 recepit. pergerem longius , si adicienda suppeterent. vos in propinquo urbis cele-
briore fama rerum agitis et pari otio : vestram est procul positos ditare conpertis. vale.
tanae lluor] (J7), niaMu////ll/// Whor P mecum (27'), me/// P 18 meum] (/7), m/// P 19 ut
Unti] (rj, uiUnti P
sorte] F, pttHi in P 29 nam cailidus] F, periit in P bis recepit] F, //////epit P
176 SYMMACIII EPISTVLAE
LXXVim (LXXX).
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