Letter 5018: I recently read your letter and could tell your spirits were low.
Aegrum proxime animum tuum litterarum, quas miseras, lectione cognovi, mul-
tumque miratus inter coniunctissimos fortuitam subito emersisse discordiam
15 et dominum ac fratrem meum litteris obsecravi, ne a suo more dissentiat. te vero
non meo tantum, verum etiam tuo nomine rogo, ut ceteris bonis morum tuorum simi-
lem patientiam praestes ferasque omnia, quae solet peregrinationis habere condicio.
spero autem et filii mei Flaviani conciliatione et Eusebi archiatri blanditiis posse
omnia mitigari.
20 XXXVn (XXXV) a. 382—383?
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