Letter 8009: The public interest is well served by your appointment to greater responsibilities.
I would have liked to write to you sooner, but when many travelers are passing through, a writer's judgment must select a trustworthy opportunity. You now have the reason for my tardy correspondence. If this satisfies you, please arrange that your replies also reach me entrusted to reliable hands.
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Latin / Greek Original
Scribere ad te ante voluissem, sed commeantibus multis fidam occasionem debet
excerpere scribentis electio. accepisti | causam tardioris officii; quae si animo tuo 11
satisfecit, curare dignaberis, ut ad me quoque responsa tua idoneis commissa per-
veniant.
20 XXXV.
AD lOHANNEM. F
Quod sero ad te scribo, amicitiae tenacis indicium est, cuius memoria repetitis
ex intervallo probatur officiis. ipse quoque silentium tuum non aliter interpretor. nam
tisi stili honorificentiam quaero, certus fidei tuae etiam de tacito amore non dubito.
25 sed vereor, ne ista sententia tibi suadeat neglegentiam scriptionis et haec amicitiae
munia iudicii mei securus omittas. hortor igitur quaesoque, ut illam potius cogites
partem, quae adsiduitati gratiam parit, non quae promittit veniam raritati. vale.
XXXVI.
AD QVINTILIANVM. /I
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