Letter 376: I had supposed your silence was due to some other preoccupation — and so it should have been.
Ἱεροκλεῖ. (358)
Ἐγὼ δὲ ᾤμην ὑπ’ ἄλλης ἀσχολίας γεγονέναι τὴν σιω-
πήν, καὶ ἔδει γε τοῦθ’ οὕτως ἔχειν· νῦν δὲ σοῦ τε μνησθέν-
τος ἀρρωστίας καὶ τοῦ παιδός, ὡς ποικίλη γένοιτο, διηγου-
μένου πρὸς πᾶν ἀθυμίας ἦλθον. ἀλλ’ εὖ ποιοῦντες σύ τε καὶ
ἐκεῖνος, σὺ μὲν ἔγραφες, ὁ δὲ ἔλεγεν ὡς λέλυται τὸ δεινόν.
Καλυκίῳ δὲ γυναῖκα δοὺς ὀρθῶς φρονεῖς καὶ λόγους ἐθέ-
λων δοῦναι. τὰ γὰρ ὄντα καὶ σώζειν καὶ πλείω ποιεῖν οὕτως
ἂν δυνηθείη. παρὰ δὲ ἡμῶν καὶ παρακέκληταί τε πρὸς τοῦτο
καὶ κέκληται δεῦρο. καὶ παρὰ τῶν Μουσῶν αἰτῶ γλυκὺ τοὺς
λόγους ἀποφῆναι τῷ νεανίσκῳ.
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