Letter 5028: Rumor had promised you'd be coming home to our shared city.
Rumor had promised you'd be coming home to our shared city. I was already celebrating. But as the days passed and the report went cold, I realized my only consolation was to return to the habit of writing.
So here is my greeting. I ask Your Excellency to give me your visit instead of a letter. There is, after all, a particularly compelling reason to draw you here: my son's quaestorian games, to which our mutual affection invites both you and yours.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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