Letter 115: To the Doctor Theodorus.
To the Doctor Theodorus.
Scarcity of food is a blessing forced upon us. Someone else might scoff at the idea, but you cannot — you are the admirer of Hippocrates, who declared that want is the mother of health.
Human translation — Livius.org
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