Letter 7031: You always claim you put my interests above your own.
Soles adfirmare, quod me tibi praeferas. posset hoc esse credibile, si filium
meum Attalum ad nos venire patereris. in tuo enim iure est, tuis monitis adquiescit; 20
quod quidem fieri oportere consentio, sed non eatenus pontificium tuum in nostra
damna protendasl parumne est, quod ipse aeque desiderandus consortium meum de-
seris et invides nobis exoptatissimam tui societatem? insuper alterum quoque deleni-
^cis amoris artibus retines, credo coniciens, adceleraturum esse me reditum, si utro-
que destituar. at ego denuntio, opus esse monitore, qui retrahat haerentem; nam, 25
ut scis, amo otium, pascor quiete. instruo itaque te adversum lentitudinem meam:
si absentis amici iam desideras reditum, patere brevem praesentis excursum.
xxvm.
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