Letter 1018: [Only a fragment survives:] I am often urged by your warm correspondence to write about the literary studies we've...
[Only a fragment survives:] I am often urged by your warm correspondence to write about the literary studies we've both undertaken [Text breaks off in source.]
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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