Letter 1083: Here's my second letter, and I still haven't received a reply to the first.
Here's my second letter, and I still haven't received a reply to the first. You'll claim the demands of travel have kept you from writing, and perhaps a dozen other excuses besides.
Out of my affection for you, I'll accept the apology without complaint. But with equal affection, I ask that when you do have a free moment, you make up for the enforced silence with a voluntary letter.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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