Letter 85
I've been deeply impatient with your silence — the kind of complaint that comes naturally to those who care. But I confess that your recent letter has satisfied my longing. So I'm grateful, and I earnestly ask you to keep writing often. This kind of attention never grows tiresome through repetition.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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