Letter 8022: Who more justly learns the signs of my prosperity than you?

Ennodius to Florus. Who recognizes the signs of my prosperity more rightly than one who has wished it sincerely and unceasingly? Nor is it fitting that one party should come to know the desires of another beforehand. Therefore, the service of a greeting having been rendered, I declare to you that, after human treatment had failed, I was soon healed by a heavenly favor: that very circumstance recalled me to the hope of prosperity, precisely because the physicians had given up. Now, recognizing your joys, just as I judge of my own, join with me in attending with praises the bestower of so great a benefit; and, if a still longer delay detains you, set down in a letter how well you are faring.

XXII. ENNODIVS FLORO. Qui iustius prosperitatis meae cognoscit indicia, nisi qui sinceriter et indesinenter optauit? nec conuenit prius alterum 15 Terentianus Mannis 1951, Verge A. VI 1 ̃ XXT. 3 possim B 4 ra procurem L set B 5 pu semper tuus T 6 talem otn. L 7 protector T1 8 stili] simili B eum morderem fort . 9 artem Pb 10 uersos L meoe om. B religeras B docuit B1 14 iste L1 genua Tsb, ienua P, ianua BLT1 V, genas fort . 15 terentinus B 17 elassique immittit Ps (m mg.) b, mittit LPTY, mittet B abenas T, aninas B 18 tamen (a ex e? corr.) B 19 quod L uersus ipsos emendo LPTVb ipeus Bl derigo L1 21 contiget B quid T fu«erat B 22 mo..uerer L XXII. 24 fioro] liberio B 25 iustos B 26 senceri (eri in ras.) B desideria aliena cognoscere. ergo seruitio salutationis exhibito indico me caelesti beneficio, postquam cessauit humana curatio, mox sanatum: reuocauit me ad spem prosperitatis res illa, quia medici destiterunt. nunc gaudia uestra,, sicut de me aestimo, cognoscentes mecum laudibus prosequimini tanti beneficii largitorem et, si adhuc uos longior mora detinet, quam bene ualeatis litteris intimate.