Letter 164: Neither of these things is new -- neither your constant traveling nor your sending of gifts.
To Modestus.
Neither thing is new, neither the great frequency of your running about nor the sending of gifts of hospitality. For you have long indeed been both a traveler all around and a lover of giving; but as for me, how could I requite you, if you should be unwilling to receive my discourses [literary compositions], which are the only thing I have?
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Latin / Greek Original
Μοδέστῳ.
Οὐδέτερον καινόν, οὔθ’ ὁ πολύς σου δρόμος οὔθ᾿ ἡ
ξενίων πομπή. πάλαι γὰρ δὴ σὺ καὶ περίπολος καὶ φιλόδωρος,
ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ σὲ πῶς ἂν ἀμειψαίμην, εἰ τοὺς λόγους, ὃ μόνον ἐστί
μοι, μὴ βούλοιο λαμβάνειν;
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
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