Letter 6084: You sent over everything from the birthday feast — every dish and delicacy made its way to us.
You sent over everything from the birthday feast — every dish and delicacy made its way to us. But one thing was missing that would have made the celebration complete... [Text breaks off here in the source.]
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Latin / Greek Original
Omnes ad nos nataliciv. convivii copias transtulistis ; sed unum defuit, quominus
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- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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