Letter 7043: Fortune often upsets the best-laid plans -- and that's exactly what happened to me.
Flemmque fors disposita conturbat: quod nunc mihi usu venit, qui Etruscos va-
pores salubritatis causa adire non potui rebus retentus urbanis. nulla igitur tibi per
25 me indicitur mora, quin immo et hortor et postulo, ut festinato itinere Komam revisas
reddasque nobis iucunditatem praesentiae tuae, qua defrui in suburbanitate non con-
tigit. vale.
6 fuctns P 7 sedj Kiesaling, et PVM 8 inuitus om. VM
uel tog// add, inmg. P 2 m. 15 statu In obsequium] V{/7^<, periit in P reuerterunt quid] V(ll],
reuer////////// P 16 angtistis] VAf(/7), periU in P //quirit P 19 lybicae P, libicae V
adventu Kie9tUng 20 aequitur in VM epist. 40
21 epi$t, 39 hoc loeo omiasa in VM po»t p. /5^, 5 adhuc residere imerta et initium uaque ad 2{ rc-
tentus in V his repetitum e$t 22 symmacus decio P, om, VM 24 rebus retentis. STMMACHVS
GREGORIO Be^piitur III, W in Vi, rebns retentus subitis et tumultuariis. uale. Elegisti materiam sequitur
III, 20 in M 25 mora — itinere om. V 27 poit uale seqtUtur in V p. 162, 6 constitui nt
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1S8 SYMMAOHI EPISTVLAE
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