Letter 7034: Country leisure is certainly a pleasure, but I put your company first.
Country leisure is certainly a pleasure, but I put your company first. So for the consular celebrations, fortune willing, you'll have me as both spectator and dinner guest. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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