Letter 6048: Since I learned you've been laid low by your usual ailment, every other worry has vanished from my mind.
Since I learned you've been laid low by your usual ailment, every other worry has vanished from my mind. As Hippocrates says [Aphorisms 2.46], present sufferings are dulled when a greater pain arrives. So I'm waiting for better news about you before I can go back to caring about anything else. Everything else, in this state of mental distress, I'm setting aside as ill-timed -- though I've attached a memorandum that I'd like you to look over once your health is restored to calm. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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