Letter 3017: I have good grounds for complaint: you were raised to the honor of a pontificate and gave me no sign of our shared joy.
I have good grounds for complaint: you were raised to the honor of a pontificate and gave me no sign of our shared joy. But I will not steep my first letter in bitterness, lest harsh words make you withdraw. So I set aside my grievance on one condition: that from now on you make friendship your constant care.
Let honorable correspondence pass frequently between us. Silent harmony is no better than hostility. That is precisely why nature or skill produced the art of writing — so that affection would never be mute. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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