Letter 1027: A short note celebrating Capitolinus as a harbor for a grateful physician.
Good Cyrus, who has mastered many diseases by his art, came in to me running and overjoyed. When I asked why he was so moved, he said that he had been freed from fear, had breathed again, and had escaped a great wave. After he explained what the danger was, I asked again, 'Who calmed it?' He answered while at the same time clapping your head, which has already saved countless people better than any harbor. Hearing this, I rejoiced with both men: with the one who had not been drowned and with the one who had snatched him away. I will never stop thinking that those who help others share in the profit of those who gain their very existence.
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Latin / Greek Original
Τῷ αὐτῷ. (392) 6
1. Κῦρος ὃ χρηστός, ὃ πολλῶν κρατήσας τῇ τέχνῃ νοσημά-
των, εἰσῆλϑε παρ᾽ ἐιιὲ τρέχων τε καὶ περιχαρής. ἐρομένου δέ
μου, τίσιν οὕτω διατεϑείη, φόβου τε ἐλεύϑερος ἔφασκε γε-
γενῆσϑαι καὶ ἀναπεπνευκέναι κῦμα διαφυγὼν μέγα. 3. δι-
δάξαντος δέ, ὅ τι ἦν τὸ κακόν, πάλιν ἠρόμην" τίς δὲ ὃ
ξαντος δέ, ἧ Ἰρόμη
τοῦτο στορέσας; ὃ δὲ εἶπε κροτῶν ἅμα τὴν σὴν κεφαλήν,
ἣ μυρίους ἤδη σέσωκε κάλλιον παντὸς λιμένος. 8. ταῦτα
ἀκούσας ἀμφοτέροις συνήσϑην, τῷ τε οὐ κατακλυσϑέντι τῷ
τε ἐξαρπάσαντι" καὶ γὰρ τοὺς βοηϑοῦντας τῶν κερδαινόντων τὸ
εἶναι νομίζων οὐδέποτε παύσομαι.
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