Letter 7051: As I reported in my previous letter, my health was struck down on arrival -- whether by bad water or the change of...

On our first arrival, as we indicated in our previous letter, our health was struck down, whether by the unwholesome waters or by the change of country-fortune will have seen to that. Now a better condition has begun to lessen these troubles; but beyond all else it has served us as a remedy that we have learned you are well. But if you also inquire about the time of our return, we hope to take the road on the Ides of October [October 15], if fortune favors what has been said. [The remainder of the source consists of editorial critical apparatus and page-footer matter, not letter text, and is therefore not part of the letter.]

Primo adventu, ut scripto superiore signavimus, valetudo nostra perculsa est, 20 seu insalubribus aquis sive agris mutatione, fors viderit. nunc status melior coepit adversa tenuare; sed prae ceteris remedio nobis fuit, quod vos salvere cognovimus. quod si etiam reditus nostri tempus inquiritis, ad idus Octobres legere iter, si dicto fortuna adsit, optamus. ///////////Utionis P 11 est om. F ut mea] VMF, periU in P uicissit////// P uale add. VM 74 ei VI 77, quae pauci$ diebw posi hane epist, seriptae esie videntur^ Formii$ datae aunt [p. 275, 20), neque anno 397 Sifmmaehu$ BcUa» attigit; ef, interpolatione» similes p. 43 y 9; Hlj 9 16 prouocauerint MF uale add, VMF cepit eorr. ex capit P4 m, 21 praeteritis V 22 octo^r P, octobris VM si dicto fortuna adsit opumu.] VU(n), lillllllllllllillliilill^x» P 23 u>lo add. VM 1 98 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE LXXV.