Letter 6015: The fortunes of our shared homeland have been reduced to such dire straits that the worst must be avoided.
The fortunes of our shared homeland have been reduced to such dire straits that the worst must be avoided. I want to send your brother back to you immediately. Please provide him with pack animals so that his haste can be properly supported. As for my daughter, she must not be subjected to the hardship of travel, as I wrote before -- after her recent serious illness, her health needs rest and quiet to recover. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
In eas angustias communis patriae fortuna deducta est, ut extrema vitanda sint.
itaque fratrem vestrum continuo ad vos opto dimittere, cui bastemarios mox praebere
dignamini, ut festinatio eius iumentomm adminiculis adiuvetur. ceterum filiam meam
vexari itinere, sicuti ante scripseram, non oportet, quoniam post incommodum grave
25 valetudo eius otio et quiete refovenda est. vale.
XVI (XVU) a. 397.
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