{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/208/2080266.htm","path":"chr/ecf/208/2080266.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/208/2080266.htm","text":"Letter CXCIII. 2679\nI am not able to flee from the discomforts of winter so well as cranes are, although for foreseeing the future I am quite as clever as a crane. But as to liberty of life the birds are almost as far ahead of me as they are in the being able to fly. In the first place I have been detained by certain worldly business; then I have been so wasted by constant and violent attacks of fever that there does seem something thinner even than I was,\u2014I am p. 234 thinner than ever. Besides all this, bouts of quartan ague have gone on for more than twenty turns. Now I do seem to be free from fever, but I am in such a feeble state that I am no stronger than a cobweb. Hence the shortest journey is too far for me, and every breath of wind is more dangerous to me than big waves to those at sea. I have no alternative but to hide in my hut and wait for spring, if only I can last out so long, and am not carried off beforehand 2680 by the internal malady of which I am never rid. If the Lord saves me with His mighty hand, I shall gladly betake myself to your remote region, and gladly embrace a friend so dear. Only pray that my life may be ordered as may be best for my soul\u2019s good.\n\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03c1\u03c0\u03b1\u03c3\u03b8\u1ff6\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd with two mss. \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03bc\u03ac\u03c1\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd has better authority, but is bad Greek, and makes worse sense.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VIII: The Letters.: To Meletius the Physician.","type":"page"}