1Both recently and again, since you so bade, I have thanked our friend Priscus. 1Most gladly, indeed: for it is most delightful to me that you, excellent men and my dearest friends, have grown so close that you each think yourselves under obligation to the other. 2For he too declares that he takes particular pleasure in your friendship, and he vies with you in the most honourable contest of mutual affection, which time itself will increase. 2I am sorry that you are distracted by business, for this reason, that you cannot devote yourself to your studies. 2If, however, you settle one lawsuit through a judge and the other, as you say, yourself, you will begin first to enjoy your leisure there, and then, when you have had your fill, to come back to us.
2Farewell.