Letter 9004: You're right to assume I share your concerns — I'd claim them as my own even without being asked, out of friendship.
Curarum tuarum me esse participem iure praesumis, quas ego animo meo etiam
non commonitus pro amicitia vindicarem. pars igitur sollicitudinis tuae filia mea ad-
ventante minuenda est, quam proxime Roma suscepit dimissura in conspectum tuum,
cum se interposita refectione recreaverit. interea de communis patriae victu celeriter
15 invehendo silere me apud te non sinunt angustiae conditorum. quaeso itaque te, ut
vigore, quo praeditus es, annonarios urgueri iubeas apparatus. adiciet enim pluri-
mum gloriae tuae Romana securitas. vale.
XV a. 400—401.
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I had wanted to write to you before -- everything people sing about your character encouraged it.
1. The Holy God has promised a happy of issue out of all their infirmities to those that trust in Him. We, therefore, though we have been cut off in a mid-ocean of troubles, though we are tossed by the great waves raised up against us by the spirits of wickedness, nevertheless hold out in Christ Who strengthens us.
You've chosen the easier topic.
Don't blame the boy for the slow return.
Your annoyance is over. Let this be the beginning of my letter. Go on mocking and abusing me and mine, whether laughing or in earnest.