Letter 70: For the past year, no letter has come from your sacred hand, and I count that among the many calamities that have...
Letter 70: Death of Synesius' son
[1] To Proclus
During the year which has just passed no letter has come to me from your sacred hand, and I look upon this as one of a number of calamities which have happened to me at this juncture. For I have suffered many griefs in many ways this last year, and now this winter has snatched away from me that child who was all the joy that remained to me. [2] No doubt it was my fate to be happy when in your company, but when away to have experience of evil fortune. At all events may there come from your fatherly heart some letter that shall alleviate my grief, the most precious cargo that comes from Thrace !
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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