Letter 7066: I won't let you go without hearing from me, and your silence won't lead me to imitate it.
I won't let you go without hearing from me, and your silence won't lead me to imitate it. I know that the duties of correspondence are often delayed not by neglect of friendship but by the pressure of other obligations. Believe this for the future, and make it your business to resume an exchange you've been putting off too long. I'll be all the readier to write once I'm no longer the only one doing so. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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