Letter 7074: Your letter has kept me in suspense, and I'm anxious to hear encouraging news.
Sollicitatus iamdudum litteris tnis pendeo animo, quamdiu de te secunda cog-
noscam. quid igitur vel medicorum curatio vel abstinentia tua ad salutem promo-
15 verit, opto cognoscere. ipse bonae valetudinis compos revisere patriam fortuna suf-
fragante constitui, priusquam labor itinerum processu adultae hiemis augeatur.
im.
AD LOLLIANVM. PVF
Primas litteras sponte tribnisti, secundas mea cura debet elicere. sume igitur
20 salutationem, quam vicissitudine mnnereris. polliceor itidem cum responsis tuis paria
me esse factumm.
V a. 375—376.
AD PRISCILLIANVM. PV
Essent mihi gratae litterae tuae, vel si nihil de meis apud Africam meritis ac
25 laudibus continerent; nunc ut mihi decus aliquod, ita tibi pro mutua amicitia gau-
in . . . di propriQ 7 . . . ictari debes . . . requiris aduer 8 . . . nunc morari oa . . . c mutationib; nici 9 . . .
hnnc mensem capio . . . a si dii iuuerint nolun 10 . . . appiam ***^*****^***^i^ . . . ccessu *********
****** 3 multa lex Iir ease sed V; est sed (77), supple: gratanter agnosco vel $imiU quid
appiam |K>teris F hiemis] VF^ om. P spatio vacuo relieto; supple: relegere Appiam constitiii, ante-
quam itineris crescant molestiae accessu hiemis vel simile quid
«««#««4»»«» immo r, *************** P, tandiu angar (77) cognosco menti igitur tibi medicorum V
14 prouenerit eorr, ex promouerit V 3 m.
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Not only the uneducated and the rough-mannered fall into moral error.
I haven't been stalling on purpose with my reply.
I know it speaks to our friendship that I involve you in my difficulties.
1. Your letters I have great pleasure in keeping as carefully as my own eyes. For they are great, not indeed in length, but in the greatness of the subjects discussed in them, and in the great ability with which the truth in regard to these subjects is demonstrated.
To a Friend.