Roman Letters

Letter 115: To the Doctor Theodorus.

Synesius of Cyrene→Doctor Theodorus|c. 407 AD|Synesius of Cyrene|Human translated
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To the Doctor Theodorus.

Scarcity of food is a blessing forced upon us. Someone else might scoff at the idea, but you cannot — you are the admirer of Hippocrates, who declared that want is the mother of health.

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