Letter 3025: ...while others track scent-trails with the keen noses of their hounds.
...while others track scent-trails with the keen noses of their hounds. But all of this would be more enjoyable if you were here. Instead, you're buried in Scaevola's legal commentaries [Quintus Mucius Scaevola, the famous Roman jurist], training sleepless students for the courtroom.
So hurry here, and let what's left of the holiday scrub away the staleness of your work. Or if you're really that devoted to your classroom prison, at least come refresh yourself so you'll go back sharper for the job. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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