Letter 6079: Not a day goes by without a letter from me.
Not a day goes by without a letter from me. What if you returned the favor? Still, I don't regret my diligence, even though the courtesy of reciprocity goes unobserved. Acts done out of love are pleasing even when they go unreciprocated.
I'm making my way back to health, but slowly. That's why I'm postponing any decision about a longer journey until my recovery is further along. I'm eager to hear what you've decided about coming back or spending time at your suburban estate. Farewell.
AI-assisted translation — This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
NuIIus absque epistulis meis dies labitur. quid si adfatum mutuum redderetis?
nec tamen paenitet diligentiae, quamvis honor vicissitudinis neglegatur. nam quae
ex amore fiunt, etiam gratuita delectant. ego ad sanitatem lento adhuc gradu pro-
yehor, atque ideo itineris ulterioris ambiguum usque ad profectum sanitatis delibera-
10 tione sequestro. quid ipsi de reditu aut suburbana commoratione statueritis, havet
animus edoceri. vale.
LXXVU (LXXVni) a. 397.
Related Letters
It is an act full of piety that you spontaneously anticipate a brother's wish.
A letter propounding several cases of conscience. To My Beloved and Venerable Father the Bishop Augustine, Publicola Sends Greeting. It is written: Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
How do you think I felt when a rumor swept through town that you were battling a dangerous — possibly catastrophic —...
1. As for my spirit, I am well, through the Lord's good pleasure, and the strength which He condescends to impart; but as for my body, I am confined to bed. I can neither walk, nor stand, nor sit, because of the pain and swelling of a boil or tumour.
When anger snaps the reins of the guiding reason, it drags a person's mind far beyond the boundaries of nature.