Letter 103
It's been a long time since you honored me with a letter. I'd complain about your silence if I doubted your loyalty. But a friendship tested through long experience and proven by evidence stands beyond the reach of suspicion.
I understand that your public duties have held back your correspondence. Still, I ask you to resume where you left off. I'll be as grateful for a fresh letter as if no lapse had ever preceded it. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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