Letter 8024: At last I'm overflowing with pleasure, now that you've reported yourself free of cares.
Nnnc demum adflno voluptate, quod te curarum vacuum nuntiasti, nam me hac-
tenus rerum tuarum amaritudo mordebat. itaque salutis praesides deos conprecor, ne
umquam paginas tuas mens tristis infuscet. interea talibus litteris pretium repen- 15
dendum est; quare vicissim sume, quo de me gaudeas. in bono statn valetudinis
Bumus et relegere urbi propinqua meditamur. sinat fortunae benignitas hoc
inter nos manere commercium, ut prosperis scriptis responsa consentiant. vale.
LXXI (LXX) a. 400.
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