Letter 2048: With the gods' help, we arrived at our destination after a smooth voyage and an easy journey.
With the gods' help, we arrived at our destination after a smooth voyage and an easy journey. We reached port just in time for dinner. As we sat down to eat, a messenger came running up with your kind letter and — along with it — a haul of seafood you'd caught. We ate it straightaway. It seemed right to indulge ourselves, now that our little one had been pulled safely through the danger we'd feared.
There you have the whole story. Take care of yourself and come back soon to the city that loves you — with your father's blessing, I hope, to whom you will soon be restored once the purification ceremony is complete.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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