Letter 7034: Country leisure is certainly a pleasure, but I put your company first.
Country leisure is certainly a pleasure, but I put your company first. So for the consular celebrations, fortune willing, you'll have me as both spectator and dinner guest. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Est quidem mibi ruris otinm voluptati, sed antiquiorem tui iudico voluntatem;
10 quare officiis consularibus, si fors dictum iuvet, spectator et conviva non deero. vale.
XXXI.
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