Letter 7005: I expect another letter of mine will reach you first, since the carriers of this one are following a slow pack-mule...
I expect another letter of mine will reach you first, since the carriers of this one are following a slow pack-mule train home. Even so, I couldn't resist sending a greeting. I'd rather have a letter arrive late and seem redundant than have it go unsent and be missed.
I haven't yet received a single letter from you, my dear boy. Please make this your highest priority. You can measure from your own heart how much comfort steady correspondence brings to someone far from home.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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