Letter 8025: As soon as heavenly grace restored me, my first thought was of you.
XXV. ENNODIVS FAVSTO.
Mox ubi me gratia superna respexit et animam de iudicii
caelestis uicinitate trepidantem concesso, ut melioraretur,
uiuendi laxauit spatio, magnitudini uestrae beneficia per litteras
diuina non tacui. uere cessantibus medicis illius, qui innocentia
et lacrimis emitur, medicina non defuit. credite, nisi mihi
subuenisset destitutio curantium, nil ualerem. nam quia
aegrescebam hominum studiis, coepi neglegentia iam sanari.
haec quidem prioribus intimata sunt: sed occasio praeteriretur,
adieci, sperans obsequio salutationis oblato, ut me de prosperitatis
uestrae, de qua pendeo, (statu) subleuetis alloquiis.
1 mendicus L facere B 2 haber B spes] i do T add.
8. l. m. 2 4 oleum B sepulcbro LPTV 6 teste (fit uid.) B
7 optenui B 8 ora B criato B, domino Pb 9 diacesMsit
(alt . s m ras.) L uestre B cupiam B 10 quoque tempore
Y iubisse B 11 set (t in ras.) L 12 iubat B ..... .quamuis
scripsi, quam BLV, qua T, quae Pb a om. B menime
B 18 reepoistes B optatur T
XXV. 16 ubique (que deletum) B 18 magnitudini∗ uestre B
20 et om. B emittit otio currantium (medicina-destitutio om.) B
21 namquia nam quia B 22 egri6oebam B per negligentiam
Pxb 24 adieci Sirm., adie BPTVb, adie. L oblato B in
ras . 25 uestre B statu addidi, om. libri
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