Letter 7006: I've just received the letter I'd been hoping for, and it showed both the devotion of your spirit and the progress...
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Desideratas proxime amabilitatis tuae litteras sumpsi, quibus indicabatur et sedu-
litas animi tui' et profectus ingenii. sola epistulae brevitas nequaquam paterno desi-
derio satisfecit. quod eo scribo, ut intellegas, quantum ex sermone tuo ceperim vo-
luptatis, qui queror cjpiam defuisse. quis enim optet satietatem nisi rerum bonarumf
posthac igitur indulgentius scribe, lux raea, ut pleniore stili tui munere legentis ani- is
mus expleatur. vale.
VII a. 400.
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