Letter 11: The grief we felt over your illness has itself made us ill -- what pleasure can we have when you're suffering?
**To Julian** (363 or 353/54?)
The grief we felt over your illness has itself cast us into illness — for what pleasure can we have when you are suffering? It fell to Seleucus, it seems, to bring this news as well: that you have passed the worst of the crisis.
On that account I consider Entrechiοs a fortunate man, for he will see Bithynia at a better time — and it is a better time when your body, too, is restored to health.
We are grateful to you for your affection toward the man, and we ask you to add a further kindness: that you invite him to your table.
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