Letter 7029: If you had answered my letter, you would have lightened your own conscience.

If you had answered my letter, you would have lightened your own conscience. Instead, your silence only helped mine. When courtesies are returned, they bring me joy; when they're withheld, I claim the victory. I know you could produce effortlessly what I wring out with great labor. But since you begrudge your readers your fine words, I'll swallow my loss rather than seem to be forcing your hand against your stinginess. Farewell.

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?