Letter 6051: The birthday gift you sent -- may our shared happiness keep this tradition alive for many years to come -- lifted my...

By the gift of your birthday observance, which our shared good fortune will cause to be celebrated by you for many years, you have gladdened our spirit and given proof of your own. My modesty forbids me to write of this at any length; yet the gratitude that remains in my feelings is more abundant than what is set forth in speech. As for the matters concerning the City, you will learn of them by reading the attached memorandum. To you, lady daughter, with the same scrupulous care as is fitting, I enjoin the duty of tending to your health, so that the assurance of your well-being may be a pleasure to us all. Farewell.

Natalicio munere , quod frequentari a vobis per multos annos communis felicitas 30 faciet, nostrum hilarastis animum, vestrum probastis. de quo me prolixe scribere 7 Hippocr. aphor. II 46. Untur P 1 m, 8 cui] tui P 2 m, 9 ceterum F 11 saniUteip P quam] (77), soUic///////// P 16 postula/// P riiniiires P 1 m, maiori (7^) 24 quam P uirentium F 26 adueraari quieuerint F verecundia vestra non patitur; copiosior tamen in sensibus manet gratia, qnam ser- P mone profertur. quae ad urbem pertinent, indiculi cohaerentis lectione noscetis. tibi, domna filia, eadem religione, qua dignum est, iniungo curam iuvandae valetudinis tnae, nt omnibas nobis sanitatis tuae securitas voluptati sit. vale. » XXXXVmi (L).