Quod utinam incolumis Carthagine revertisset! Vel, quoniam sic ei fuerat fato decretum, utinam tu, Rufine, supremum eius iudicium non impedisses! Quas mihi aut coram aut denique in testamento gratias egisset! Litteras tamen, quas ad me Carthagine[m] vel iam adveniens ex itinere praemisit, quas adhuc validus, quas iam aeger, plenas honoris, plenas amoris, quaeso, Maxime, paulisper recitari sinas, ut sciat frater eius, accusator meus, quam in omnibus minor vitae curriculum cum fratre optimae memoriae viro currat.
If only he had returned alive from Carthage! Or rather, since that was how it had to be, if only you, Rufinus, had not thwarted his final testimony! What thanks he would have expressed to me either in person or at least in his will! Yet the letters he sent ahead to me from Carthage or on the road while returning, some when in good health, some when already ill, full of respect, full of love'I beg you, Maximus, let them be read out briefly, so that his brother, my accuser, may see how in every respect he falls short of his dearly missed brother as he runs the course of life.
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