Letter 1024: ...long days on the road, rough lodgings, the creeping cold, the shrinking daylight, and all the other hazards of...
...long days on the road, rough lodgings, the creeping cold, the shrinking daylight, and all the other hazards of the season — I avoided them all.
If you judge me by my heart rather than my feet, I ask you to accept these excuses graciously. Perhaps we'll manage to win back your old goodwill. For now, it would be enough just to escape your displeasure.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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