Letter 6029: If anything in this life can be relied on, let me tell you: I've come back from the brink after the internal pain...
If anything in this life can be relied on, let me tell you: I've come back from the brink after the internal pain that suddenly snatched me from your company. If rumor carried anything alarming to your ears, let it be forgotten now.
Above all, I want you not to rush back in a panic. Since things have turned toward recovery, please satisfy our mutual longing at a sensible pace of travel. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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