Letter 6085: ...we missed the company of those whose presence and companionship can make even a modest dinner feel special.

[...] which we have spent [the opening of this sentence is lost in the source], whose sight and company have a way of recommending sometimes even a frugal table. Therefore both for you and for our common pledge [the shared child], whose festal day you have celebrated with diligent devotion, we pray for abundant years and for a return to these same celebrations many times over. For an unbroken happiness befits devoted parents. The air of Tibur charms us, but on the other hand the mismanaged accounting of the overseers exasperates our spirit. The land does not shine with cultivation, a great part of its produce is owed away, and now nothing of resources remains to the tenant farmers that might either relieve the accounts or serve the cultivation. Farewell.