Letter 6057: I wrote yesterday through my own man, struck with fear after you reported the bitter news about my daughter's health.
Heri per hominem meum scripsi metu percitus, postquam de valetudine filiae meae
amara cognitu nuntiastis, et adhuc pendente responso crucior incertis. peto igitnr 25
edoceri, quid ei ad confirmationem sanitatis accesserit. rerum vero praesentium nul-
lum vobis indicium facere decreveram, ne in aures vestras redirent, quae probabili
discessione vitastis. sed quia civicus amor in negotia urbana curam vestram reduxit,
qnaedam conlata in titulos breviter percucurri, ut sine fastidio lectionis insinuata
noscatis. vale. 30
3 quoram P 1 m,
periit in P uerecundiam creant] (77), uerecu///// ////// P 13 in uos] (77), periit in P fre-
quen/// P
17 symmacus nichomacus flUis P
/////////or P curam in rat. P uestram] F, //////ra P
LVI (LVH) a. 397.
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