Letter 2004: Relax — take a break and enjoy your leisure.
Relax — take a break and enjoy your leisure. The honorable Antonius has informed me that the plan for the African delegation has stalled. This is confirmed by the fact that no recent letters from my friends have mentioned the matter.
Is there anything else you need to know? In fact, I think this should have been the first thing I told you. When we set sail from the Cumanum estate at barely first light, we reached the shore at Formiae with more help from the rowers than from the wind — the sun had already passed its peak. The friends who came in a smaller boat arrived later: delayed, it was unclear, whether by headwinds or by the carelessness of the crew. That is everything I had to report for now. I'll see to it that by writing frequently I earn the same diligence from you.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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