Letter 9021: We should be silent about fortune's blows, lest a belated consolation tear open the scar of past grief.
Tacenda snnt damna fortonae, ne sera conso/atio seindat praeteriti cicatricem do-
loris. rectias ergo tecnm de filii nostri Nemesii omatissima indole vel potins fecnnda
landnm fmge contnlerim. habes viram dignissimnm pro nnmerosa prole censeri. hunc &
tibi in manum reddo, quod facere de utroque yoluissem. aestimabis de cultu morum
eius ac litteramm, quantum illi studiomm mora potuisset adicere, nisi respectum pa-
temi desiderii timor noster habuisset.
LV (Lir.
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