Letter 9003: I see we've gotten into a contest of wits over a matter that friendship, reason, and time should have settled long ago.
I see we've gotten into a contest of wits over a matter that friendship, reason, and time should have settled long ago. So let me put an end to these mutual recriminations before our increasingly bitter exchanges go on forever. The complete set of Livy I promised you is still being held up by the work of careful emendation. But please send me a carrier for the promised gift, since the preparations for the praetorship have scattered my own people far and wide, and I have no one familiar to send. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ingeniorum video inter nos esse certamen in eo negotio, qnod ratio amicitia tem-
puB abolere debuerat. modum igitur expostula/tonibas mutuis facio, ne amarissimae
5 scriptionum vices sine fine procedant. mnnus totius Liviani operis^ quod spopondi,
etiam nunc diligentia emendationis moratur. sed a te praedicti muneris posco vecto-
rem, quia meos praetorius apparatus spamm in longinqua egit retinet et
ignotos. vale.
Xnil a. 399.
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