Letter 6082: May this day live forever -- the day that gave you to us as a daughter.
Aevuni maneat hic dies, qui te nobis filiam dedit. hunc ego et gaudiis mentis
et verborum honoribus per multos annorum recursus vobiscum opto celebrare, adicere
etiam mihi ingravata, tibi iucunda munuscula. ut nunc lineam misi, cuius potest ob- ^
latio exigua non videri, si magis mei in vos animi quam sui pretii aestimatione pen-
datur.
LXXX (LXXXI).
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