Letter 7014: Since no official courier was available, I entrusted this letter to a private traveler.
Since no official courier was available, I entrusted this letter to a private traveler. Him I would ask you to... [Text breaks off here in the source.]
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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