Letter 5003: You yourself provided the carrier for this reply — so I owe you a double debt of gratitude: the letter came from...
You yourself provided the carrier for this reply — so I owe you a double debt of gratitude: the letter came from you, and through you I was given someone to carry my answer back. May such exchanges of kindness continue between us, and among your many distinctions may your unfailing attentiveness to friends be counted as a title of honor. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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