Letter 6060: Since our dear Sibidius returned to Rome and reported how badly my daughter is suffering physically, my own spirits...

After our dear one Sibidius returned to Rome and brought word how greatly bodily pain afflicts my daughter, my own spirit too grows sick. And so, delaying nothing, I sent off a letter, anxiously asking, first, that she be helped toward health by the physician's aid and by abstaining from harmful things, and next, that the assurance of a reply may serve to do away with my worry. As for ourselves, after the departure of the envoys we have come out to the Vatican estate, which adjoins your property, and, if nothing disturbs what has been arranged, we shall enjoy the leisure of the villa until the Kalends of April [the first of April]. The levy of younger men imposed upon the city households will remain pending until the responses of the eternal prince [the emperor]. From the enclosed copies you will learn the form of each directive. These things, because they were desired in your letter, I have sent; for the rest, the sole and only reason I had for dictating the letter was [...].