neque mihi rem credito diuturnius elaboratam vitio vertas: nam dum me tenuit inclusum mora moenium Livianorum, cuius incommodi finem post opem Christi tibi debeo, non valebat curis animus aeger saltim saltuatim tradenda percurrere, nunc per nocturna suspiria, nunc per diurna officia distractus.
And you must not blame me for taking longer over the work than was expected. So long as arrest within the walls of Livia kept me a prisoner (and it is to your help, after Christs, that I owe the ending of that burden), my heart was sick with anxieties and harassed by sighs at night and by obligations during the day, so that it was unable, even with occasional spurts, to get quickly through the work I had to consign to you.
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