Letter 7022: You've redeemed two offenses against friendship in a single letter, with wit as your payment: you'd been away too...

Two offenses against friendship, committed together, you have redeemed by the wit of your letter: you had long been away, you had written nothing. What Colchian or Thessalian could have eased these offenses by his incantation or his hand? And so, in return for the soothing charm of your letter, you shall carry off the prize of pardon. I permit you, free from care, to keep your friend's wedding feast, and to make the city of Tibur [Tivoli], which lately bore the marriage-torches before you, a shared possession of Juno and Hercules. You will return, as I hope, after the wedding-revels to your household on the Caelian; or, if it still pleases you to pass the summer days in your orchards, my indignation must once again be appeased by the honey of your letters. Farewell.