Letter 7024: After your letter was delivered by my coachman and the greeting he brought from the road discharged my obligation,...
Postquam mihi litteras tuas raedarins meus reddidit et salutatio ex itinere repor-
tata observantiam nostram solvit religione, datus est mihi aditus crebro, dum aberis,
h tecum loquendi. quare ab iis ordior, quae in voto tuo prima sunt. deum pace mea
atque unici mei sanitas viget. urbanas turbas Vaticano, in quantum licet, rure de-
clino, et tamen, si quando in coetum vocamur, ad obsequium consilii publici pedem
refero. scio te nihil amplius velle de nobis. tantundem pernoscere rerum tuarum
desiderii modus postulat. vale.
10 xxn.
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