Letter 6082: May this day live forever -- the day that gave you to us as a daughter.

May this day, which gave you to us as a daughter, remain ours forever. This day I wish to celebrate together with you both, through many returning courses of the years, with the joys of the heart and with the honors of words, and to add as well some small gifts, burdensome to me but pleasant to you. As, for instance, I have now sent a linen garment, whose offering may not seem trifling, if it is weighed by the estimation of my affection toward you rather than of its own worth. 80 (81).

Aevuni maneat hic dies, qui te nobis filiam dedit. hunc ego et gaudiis mentis et verborum honoribus per multos annorum recursus vobiscum opto celebrare, adicere etiam mihi ingravata, tibi iucunda munuscula. ut nunc lineam misi, cuius potest ob- ^ latio exigua non videri, si magis mei in vos animi quam sui pretii aestimatione pen- datur. LXXX (LXXXI).