Letter 8018: My son is out of danger, thank God, but he's suffering from a weakness that borders on illness.
Filius meus cum bona dei venia periculo caret, sed defectum virium patitur
prope usque ad aegritudinem. redire consilium est paulatim mansionibus in spatia
minora divisis. ego quoque meorum contagio socius accessi, credo ex vigiliis noctur-
nis, quarum in praesentia exiguus fuit sensus, noxa post cruduit. conprimere tamen
15 nitor diligentia et parsimonia ingruens malum. ergo caelestibus advocatis iter para-
mus ordiri. vestrae in nos diligentiae grates referrem, si se amor speratus et ex mu-
tuo debitus lactari laude pateretur.
LVIIII (LVIII).
AD ROMANVM.
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