Letter 4020: Resume the path of our long-neglected custom — I lead the way, being the first to break our shared offense of silence.
Resume the path of our long-neglected custom — I lead the way, being the first to break our shared offense of silence. I do not demand a separate letter from each of you, though each of you individually owes me that. It is already generous that I ask only this: repay with alternating replies the correspondence that I alone have been providing. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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