Letter 7008: I trust that a steady flow of letters from me is enough to comfort your heart.
I trust that a steady flow of letters from me is enough to comfort your heart. To my recent ones I'm adding this, which will promise you my return -- if Fortune confirms what I expect. The reasoning is plain: after the magnificent performance of the consular games, only the arena show remains. So turn your anxiety into joy, and consider as good as done what a reasonable estimate predicts. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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