Letter 1103: It's been a long time since you honored me with a letter.
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.
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Latin / Greek Original
Dudum mihi nnllus litteris tuis honor factus est. quererer de silentio tuo, si de
religione dubitarem; sed quia amicitia usu credita et expensa documentis a periculo
25 suspicionis aliena est, intellego quidem per occnpationes publicas inhibitam diligentiam
scriptionnm tuarum, vemm quaeso, nt intermissum munus instaures. stabit apud me
gratia tributi officii, quasi nnlla negati culpa praecesserit. vale.
Lxxxxvnn (Lxxxxm) .
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