Letter 6042: My first concern is always to ask how your health stands.
Prima mihi voluptas est sciscitari, quem statum sanitatis habeatis, in secundis 20
reliqua conlocabo, quae dudum requirenda duxistis. gravibus civitas sollicitatur osten-
tis, quorum leviora praetereo; illud ante omnia interpretatio tristis horrescit, quod
natali urbis sufiFectum consulem currus, quo vehebatur, evolvit per ferociam bigarum,
quae triumphum vehebant. itaque palmata amictns et consulari insignis omatu, fracto
crure sublatus est. offendit me infausta narratio, atque ideo in hac expositione ser- 25
2 vabo brevitatem. tibi in dies singulos, decus nostrum, domi forisque fama florentior
est. et praesentium quidem rerum nos testes snmus; extema iudicia Caecilianus ad-
seruit, a quo singillatim relata enumerare fastidium , cum in summam gloriae tuae
cuncta conveniant. domnam filiam meam salutatam cum dulcissimis nepotibus volo;
quae de contexendis in apparatum ludorum vestibus religiose a nobis voluit commo- 30
neri. sciet igitur ex subditis, quid in supplementum praetoriae largitatis oporteat
praeparari.
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habe////// P 21 reliqua] (/7), r///qua P dudum requirenda] {17 \ du///////////// P sollici-
tatur] (77), s////////tur P 22 praetereo illud] (/7), pt////illu/ P ho/resc/t P 26 florentio
P I m. 28 relate numerare P I m. est post fastidium itu^er. P 2 m, 29 salutam P l m.
// /gitur P 8Upplifn/um P l m.
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