Letter 56: Festal greeting.
Letter 56
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Festal.
My grief is now at its height and my mind is seriously affected by it, but I have thought it right to fulfil the custom of the feast, so now I take my pen to salute your reverence and pay the debt of affection.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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