Utinam prudentius esset sollicita pro filio et non inanes quoque species anxio animo figuraret! Quare enim non ascribit metus sui causam? denique non ostendit auctorem? Quo facto dictove nostro mota,  tam trepidas tibi litteras scripsit? O miseram condicionem meam, quia forsitan non periculosius est tacere quam dicere! Sed utcumque cessura res est, malo tibi defensionem meam displicere quam causam.
Would that her solicitude for her son had been accompanied by more prudence, and that she had not through anxiety of mind pictured vain phantoms! For why does she not add the reason for her fear? finally, why does she not reveal the authority for it? By what deed or word of ours was  she moved to write you so agitated a letter? O wretched fortune of mine, since perhaps it is not more dangerous to be silent than to speak! But whatever the result may be, I prefer that it should be my manner of defence rather than my cause that displeases you.
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