Letter 6079: Not a day goes by without a letter from me.
NuIIus absque epistulis meis dies labitur. quid si adfatum mutuum redderetis?
nec tamen paenitet diligentiae, quamvis honor vicissitudinis neglegatur. nam quae
ex amore fiunt, etiam gratuita delectant. ego ad sanitatem lento adhuc gradu pro-
yehor, atque ideo itineris ulterioris ambiguum usque ad profectum sanitatis delibera-
10 tione sequestro. quid ipsi de reditu aut suburbana commoratione statueritis, havet
animus edoceri. vale.
LXXVU (LXXVni) a. 397.
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For a long time now, my lord and brother Alypius has wished to visit the sacred court.
I am staying in Milan for the moment, summoned for the ceremonies of our lord Valentinian's inaugural consulship.
In Plato, we see Socrates, already advanced in years, still pursuing his intellectual passions.
Lucinius was a wealthy Spaniard of Bætica who in conformity with the ascetic ideas of his time had made a vow of continence with his wife Theodora. Being much interested in the study of scripture he proposed to visit Bethlehem, and in A.D. 397 sent several scribes there to transcribe for him Jerome's principal writings.