Letter 7066: I won't let you go without hearing from me, and your silence won't lead me to imitate it.
I won't let you go without hearing from me, and your silence won't lead me to imitate it. I know that the duties of correspondence are often delayed not by neglect of friendship but by the pressure of other obligations. Believe this for the future, and make it your business to resume an exchange you've been putting off too long. I'll be all the readier to write once I'm no longer the only one doing so. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Exsortem te sermonis mei esse non patior neqne ab scribendi perseverantia si-
lentii tui imitatione deducar. scio enim plemmqne non amicitiae neglegentia sed ob-
VF strepentibus curis officia retardari. velim | credas et in postemm cnram s
capessas integrandi istius muneris, quod ipse iam pridem moraris ero
promptior litteris exhibendis, qui ne nunc quidem tempero, cum gratiam mutnam non
reporto.
cxvm.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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