Letter 6076: I'm in agony from kidney pain.
I am tortured by pain in my kidneys [renum]. But lest a greater report reach your ears, I have briefly indicated the present state of my health. When happier circumstances have followed, then, keeping to my custom, I will send you a more cheerful page. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Rienum dolore discrucior. sed ne maior ad aures vestras fama peryeniat, prae-
sentem statum valetudinis meae breviter indicavi. cum laeta successerint, morem
meum secutus dabo ad vos paginam laetiorem. vale. 15
LXXim (LXXV) .
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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