Letter 7074: Your letter has kept me in suspense, and I'm anxious to hear encouraging news.

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusLollianum|c. 397 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
illness

Your letter has kept me in suspense, and I'm anxious to hear encouraging news. What have the doctors' treatment and your own restraint accomplished for your health? I'm eager to know.

As for me, I'm well and have decided -- fortune willing -- to head home before the advancing winter makes travel harder.

TO LOLLIANUS:

You offered your first letter freely; now mine must draw out a second from you. Accept this greeting and repay the courtesy. I promise equal diligence in our exchange.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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