Epigraph

amīco optimō
Michāēlī

verumque illud est,
quod dicitur,
multos modios salis simul edendos esse,
ut amicitiae munus expletum sit.

“It is true,
what they say,
that you have to share many quarts of salt together
to know what amicitia really means.”

— Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia 67