Letter 7029: If you had answered my letter, you would have lightened your own conscience.
Si respondisses epistulae meae, levasses onere conscientiam tnam: nunc nostram
tacitumitate iuvisti. repensa f nim officia laetitiam mibi praestant, negata victoriam.
^et scio ex abundanti posse te facere, quod nos multo sudore destringimus. sed quia
invides bona verba lectoribus, ne vim facere existimer avaritiae tuae, dispendium
meum devoro. vale. lo
AD MACEDONIVM.
XXVI a. 397?
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