Letter 2052: I'd already sent my letter, which I assume has reached you by now.
I'd already sent my letter, which I assume has reached you by now. Not an hour later, someone arrived with your letter to me. Reading it through, I discovered you were asking me for the exact date of our departure — which I'd already told you in my earlier note, without being asked.
So: questions answered before they were posed. What's left but to congratulate ourselves on thinking alike? What I guessed you'd want to know, I'd already volunteered before you could ask. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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