Letter 6035: Your brother has been deeply grieved by the loss of his tutor and only recently started listening to those trying to...
Your brother has been deeply grieved by the loss of his tutor and only recently started listening to those trying to console him. His sadness hit me hard too, quite apart from the practical worry of finding a replacement teacher. If you agree, let's write a joint letter to the distinguished prefect Hadrianus asking for the Gallic rhetorician whom our friend Eusebius recently recommended -- we can't let the children's promising development stall for want of instruction.
Meanwhile, the preparations for the upcoming games are wearing me down with their expense and labor. I have plenty of ceremonial garments, but I keep discovering gaps in the overall arrangement. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Frater vester diu animi adfectus dolore ob amissum magistrum coepit aurem 2»
praebere solantibus, cuius maestitudo me quoque graviter sauciavit praeter cogitatio-
nem, quae nos de eligendo praeceptore sollicitat. si igitur placet, communibus litteris
ab inlustri viro praefecto Hadriano Gallum rhetorem, quem proxime Eusebius noster
ingesserat, postulemus, ne pignorum nostrorum indoles in profectu posita deseratur.
me futurae editionis et labor et sumptus exercet. in disponendis enim praemiis, quam- so
quam numero vestium satis adfluam, nonnulla adhuc deesse apparatui deprehendo. vale.
noscentiam] Juretu8j innocentiam P 1 m., in notitiam P 2 m.
31 afluam P l m.
XXXV (XXXVI) a. 398.
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