AMBROSE TO ATTICUS.

1. YOU entrusted my friend Priscus with a letter, which he delivered

to me, and I now give mine in turn to Priscus. Continue to love Priscus,

as you do, and even more than before; this I advise, because I also

value my Priscus highly. For I feel towards him that ancient love,

which from our childhood upwards has grown together with our years; but

it is long since I saw him before, so that not only in name but from so

long an interval of time he came to me as truly Priscus.

Farewell: love me your lover, for I also love you.

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