Letter 7041: I'm glad you're well. But the idea that the coast at Naples outshines our Formiae -- I suspect that's not really...

It is a pleasure to me that you are in good health. But that the coast of Naples is preferred to our Formiae, I perceive is no judgment of yours. For, to gratify the people present with you, you have changed not your opinion but your words, unless perhaps the comparison of your own affairs makes that place more agreeable to you where the yield is more abundant. But the nature of regions is to be judged by their own merits, not by our profits. But why say much about this? Your sojourn will bear witness whether you take your leisure more gladly there, since it does not come into doubt that it was against your will that you departed from me. Farewell.