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'Don't write back to me', literally 'Write nothing back to me.'

This may be a recasting into the imperative mood of a quotation from Ovid's Heroides I, where an imaginary letter to Odysseus from his wife Penelope contains the subjunctive phrase Nil mihi rescribas, "May you not write back to me."

nil = a short form of 'nihil', 'nothing'.

mihi = me, as indirect object.

rescribe = singular command form of 'rescribere', 'to write back in reply'.

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