Letter 55: Festal greeting.
Letter 55
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Festal.
We are much distressed, for we are gifted with the nature not of rocks but of men, but the recollection of the Lord's Epiphany has been to me a very potent medicine; so at once I write, according to the custom of the feast, and salute your magnificence with a prayer that you may live in prosperity and repute.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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