Letter 380
To the same person. (358/59)
Your labors truly deserve praise — both those by which you save the cities and those by which you drove off your illness. For I believe it has indeed been expelled by your endurance, Marcellus's skill, and the gods' aid. Those who brought you to us to guard the provinces surely also gave you the strength to do so.
Marcellus was praised for restoring others to health, but now he might justly be crowned for healing a man who himself heals countless cities.
But since you have sufficiently tended to matters there, show yourself here too — and you will appear to those who love you, whom you have made to find being governed a pleasure through the gentleness of your character.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.