Letter 6023: The anger that comes from injustice cuts deep, but the medicine of patience should soften the pain.
The anger that comes from injustice cuts deep, but the medicine of patience should soften the pain. You're no stranger to bearing adversity -- long experience has taught you to take fortune's blows. If you were riding high in prosperity, unexpected trouble would justly wound your happiness. But as things stand, it shouldn't.
I write this because I was surprised that a private lawsuit shook your composure -- one that was stirred up, in my opinion, by that troublemaker from the Bay of Baiae operating under your relatives' name. But he'll get what's coming to him. Your case hasn't lacked a proper legal defense: we obtained a ruling from one of the judges that his offense won't go unpunished.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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