Letter 1004: ...and so I've returned to the Bay of Baiae, since Baiae was quiet by then.

[The opening of the letter is preserved only in the editors' critical apparatus and is not recoverable as continuous text; the legible letter begins here.] I wished that those who have long been devoted to me should not be kept from their work, nor that a doubled occupation should pull them in two directions. And so I went back again to the Bay of Baiae, for Baiae was by this season already fallen silent. From here I bestow the gift of a greeting and send word that, God willing, we shall soon be returning. May fortune attend this promise. Yet let your kindness often grant me a word, as though to men who will be away for a long while.

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