Letter 480: Wishing to secure for Malchus the best of what your city has to offer, how could I pass over you?
To Hyginus.
Wishing to procure for Malchus the finest things you have to offer, how was I going to pass you over, you who in all other respects help your friends just as the rest do, but who contribute something more than the others, since you sustain men's bodies by your art [medicine]?
Keep our companion, then, in health, and labor together with him so that he may obtain what he desires. And in any case the man who is good desires fine things and not difficult ones, while you have such great power that you could suffice even for those.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ὑγίνῳ. (356)
Τὰ κάλλιστα τῶν παρ’ ὑμῖν Μάλχῳ προξενεῖν ἐθέλωv
πῶς ἔμελλον σὲ παρήσειν, ὃς τὰ μὲν ἄλλα τοῖς φίλοις ἧπερ
οἱ ἄλλοι βοηθεῖς, πλέον δέ τι παρὰ τοὺς ἄλλους εἰσφέρεις ἀνἐ-
χων τῇ τέχνῃ τὰ σώματα;
τὸν οὖν ἑταῖρον ἡμῖν τήρει τε
ἐν ὑγείᾳ καὶ ὅπως ὧν ἐπιθυμεῖ τεύξεται συμπόνει. πάντως
δὲ ὁ μὲν ὢν ἀγαθὸς καλῶν τε ἐπιθυμεῖ καὶ οὐ χαλεπῶν, σοὶ
δὲ τοσαύτη δύναμις ὥστε κἂν ἐκείνοις ἀρκέσαι.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
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