Letter 7068: I make a point of writing to you often, so it never seems my care for our friendship has cooled.
Cordi mihi est frequenter adloqui vos, ne videatur apud me officiomm familia-
rium cura tepuisse; atque ideo salutem vobis votis opto, litteris dico, petens, ut si
quando epistulamm mearum usus intervallo longiore cessaverit, causam silentii non
voluntati aut desidiac meae sed occupationibus adplicetis. 20
CXX.
AD PATRVINVM.
Vn Athanasius v. c. peregrinationis iniuriam iusto dolore suscepit. nam pactae ei
et nobis arbitris vinctae obligatione pignorum nuptiae denegantur. exaggerarem facti
credas VF, aupple: iielim tamen me offensum credas vel aimile quid 6 moraris ero VF, mpple: quod si
feceris vel simile quid 7 quidem om, (r)
scio a . . . ee momen ... 13 benigne litt . . . indicia proprit . . .
offlclorum familiarium] FF, //////////////liarium P 18 tepuisse atque ideo salutem uobisj K, te-
puis////////////////// uobis P, tepuisse atque salutem ideo uobis P, tepuisse atque uobis ideo salutem (IT)
litteriB dico petens] VF{IT), litter//////////// P 19 mearum usus interuallo] 7(77"), mea/////////teniallo P,
mearum om, F cessauerit causam] VP, cessau////////// P 20 desidiae meae] KP, desidi////// P
adplicetis om, V
letur . . . ir auxl 3 . . . ndet et mn . . . t 23 u. c.] (77), uir consularis V 24 abitris V
uinctae] VF, iunctae (//)
LIBERVn. 211
huius invidiam, nm verba rebus essent minora. ipse apnd te, quod quaesito opns VTI
est, plenius eloquetur. orare non debeo, ut tuo iuvetur auxilio. quod illi et amor
tuus spondet et munita legibus causa conciliat.
CXXI a. 401.
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