haec ergo scripsimus tibi, ne forsitan arbitrarere solam nos colere vivorum sodalitatem reique tuo iudicio essemus, nisi amicorum vita carentum semper aeque ut incolumium reminisceremur.
Well, then, I have written you this letter, lest you should perhaps think that it is only the living whose companionship I cherish: else I might be at fault in your judgment, if I did not always keep in mind my departed friends equally with those who survive.
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