Letter 25
To Heliodorus
The power of love's spell grows stronger in me with my advancing years. Now if it is the same with you, but if your innumerable occupations are such an obstacle in its way that you leave no time duly to honour now and again with a letter those to whom a letter is due; if you cannot snatch a moment from your affairs of state to write such a letter, at all events let me know that such is the case. If, on the other hand, you admit that the suspicion of your forgetfulness is justifiable, right the matter at once by your repentance, and restore yourself to us once more.