Letter 6004: I have not written in order to burden you with the bitter news of my affliction, but rather to urge your concern —...
IIII. FAVSTO ENNODIVS.
Non scripsi, ut amaro incommoditatis meae indicio uos
grauarem, sed ut sollicitudinem uestram, quatenus insistat
orationibus, conuenirem. male oculos meos ante receptae ualitudinis
substantiam inpositus labor accepit: omne a me uobiscum
lumen abscessit. sat est significasse quod patior.
uestrum est prosperitatem meam a deo, quem precibus placatis,
exigere et reseranti litterarum fores crebris opem ferre
conloquiis. domine mi, deum quaeso, ut illud a uobis indicari
faciat quod me delectet agnoscere.
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