Letter 5069: You are laying traps for my shyness, which I hide behind the modesty of silence.
You are laying traps for my shyness, which I hide behind the modesty of silence. For you are trying to elicit replies by sending provocative letters that demand a response. Very well -- you have succeeded. Here is the response you were fishing for. But do not congratulate yourself too much; I was going to write anyway. The only difference is that now you can claim credit for what would have happened regardless.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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