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.
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Latin / Greek Original
Credo alias litteras meas in manus amabilitatis taae ante venturas; huius nam-
que epistulae portitores lento itinere mulos reduces prosequentur. ego tamen saluta-
tionis munere abstinere non potui ; malui enim, ut redundaret officiuin sero pervectum, &
quam ut desideraretur omissum. tuae amabilitatis necdum ullam epistulam sumpsi.
quaeso, ut huius tibi muneris summa curatio sit; ex tuo enim metiri animo potes,
quid levaminis absentibus tribuat adsiduitas scriptiouis.
VI a. 399—402.
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