Letter 1060: You've given me great comfort in my grief.
You've given me great comfort in my grief. As the news has already reached you: I was wounded by my brother's death and have been torn apart by unbroken anguish. Still, it brought me no small relief to learn that you are well and thriving, in accordance with our shared hopes.
All that remains is for you to keep up this kind of attention — you can see that it serves as a kind of medicine for my sorrow and misfortune. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Maestitiae meae solacium grande tribnisti. nam ut dudum tibi fama fecit indi- 25
cium, fratris obitn vulneratus continno animi dolore discmcior. non mediocre tamen
inter praesentes curas levamen accepi, quod te conperi secundum communia optata
salvere. superest, ut tu istiusmodi ofGciis freqnentem operam digneris inpendere, quae
perspicis medicinam quandam mihi infortnnu et maeroris adferre. vale.
om. {n) 7 tam bonae incip. P 8 saper V, om, M tegissem P 1 m, V nobis fortaMe V
abaestam P 1 m, cotidianus V 18 continaris] P 1 m, V<P^ contionaris P ^ m, F^ ferre oonaria M
amenalis VM 19 epistolis P 20 omnem quem P 22 fant (F)
spicis VM In fortunis V meroris P 1 m, V
LV (XXXXVmi) a. 383—384.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
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