Letter 6050: City business -- I have neither the time to learn about it nor the desire to write about it.

I have neither leisure to learn the affairs of the City nor inclination to write of them; for a mind preoccupied with bodily illness knows not how to direct its attention to other people's concerns. This one thing I know: that the reports about the riots were lying, and indeed the rumors so depart from the truth that never was a prefecture celebrated with greater applause. And so the favor of the senatorial order vies with the enthusiasm of the common people toward the magistrate. These things reach us-if any respite from my sufferings permits the attentions of visitors-through the common report of all alike; the rest your own people, who move about in public life, ought to disclose with their pen. As for me, news of others' affairs is to be sought only when my own troubles have subsided. Farewell.