Letter 8022: You claim to be living the country life -- tending vines and grafting fruit trees, nursing a vigorous old age.
Rusticari te adseris et dncendis vitibug aut orboribus inserendis crudam senectn-
tem fovere. non hoc litterae tnae sapiunt, nisi forte Gallia tua dedux Heliconis.
alios sulcos stilo intennoves , alios ordine^ pangis. ego autem , quoniam scire nostra 5
desideras, in domicilio Latiaris facundiae otio et studio torpeo. dii dabunt incre-
menta annorum parvulo meo. ipse me praefata Fortunae venia ad studiorum suomm
societatem vocabit. interea frequentibus epistulis desidiam meam stimula. onum
quippe hoc litterarum genus superest post amaros casus orationum mearum, qnod me
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