Letter 4023: Our friendship is on everyone's lips, and the fame of your horses has reached distant places.
Our friendship is on everyone's lips, and the fame of your horses has reached distant places. This is why local magistrates keep asking me for letters of introduction, drawn by the reputation of your stables. Leading men from Antioch have been sent specifically [Text breaks off in source.]
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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