Letter 7027: Your silence has lasted long enough that I have concluded either that you are extremely busy or that you are...

I congratulate my friend Ignatius: your affection for him has outstripped even my own diligent care.

You know this young man, I think -- you were never unaware of those among my students who showed promise in oratory.

It is true that rumor is swift, but I will not agree with the Mantuan poet [Virgil] beyond that point.

May this custom endure, and may the mutual assurance of well-being be renewed between us year after year.

The frequency of my earlier letters has used up everything worth writing.