Letter 8024: At last I'm overflowing with pleasure, now that you've reported yourself free of cares.
At last I'm overflowing with pleasure, now that you've reported yourself free of cares. Your troubles had been weighing on me too. So I pray to the gods who guard our health that sadness may never again darken your pages.
Meanwhile, such letters deserve a proper reward: accept in return something to make you glad about me. We're in good health and thinking about a trip to the outskirts of the city. May fortune's kindness preserve this exchange between us -- so that cheerful letters are always met with matching replies. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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