Letter 9003: I see we've gotten into a contest of wits over a matter that friendship, reason, and time should have settled long ago.
Ingeniorum video inter nos esse certamen in eo negotio, qnod ratio amicitia tem-
puB abolere debuerat. modum igitur expostula/tonibas mutuis facio, ne amarissimae
5 scriptionum vices sine fine procedant. mnnus totius Liviani operis^ quod spopondi,
etiam nunc diligentia emendationis moratur. sed a te praedicti muneris posco vecto-
rem, quia meos praetorius apparatus spamm in longinqua egit retinet et
ignotos. vale.
Xnil a. 399.
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