1You ask what I am doing. 1What you know: I am distracted by official duty, I serve my friends, I study now and then — and to do that not now and then but exclusively and always would have been, I do not dare to say more right, but certainly more blessed. 2I should be sorry that you are doing everything other than what you wish, were not the things you are doing most honourable. 2For to look after the business of one's own community and to arbitrate between friends is most worthy of praise. 3I knew that the company of our friend Priscus would be pleasant to you. 3I knew his straightforwardness, I knew his courtesy; 3that he is also most grateful — something I knew less well — I am now discovering, since you write that he remembers my services so pleasantly.
3Farewell.