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eyond Indian Nyssa, 1742 or any more remote region, <strong>and</strong> w<strong>and</strong>ered about out there. Why<br />

say more?<br />

On returning home, I cannot meet you, hindered by lingering ailments. If these do not<br />

get better I shall not be able to meet you even in the winter. Is not all this, as you yourself<br />

say, due to Fate? Is not this Necessity? Does not my case nearly outdo poets’ tales of Tantalus?<br />

But, as I said, I feel better after getting your letter, <strong>and</strong> am now no longer of the same<br />

mind. When God gives good things I think we must thank Him, <strong>and</strong> not be angry with<br />

Him while He is controlling their distribution. So if He grant me to join you, I shall think<br />

it best <strong>and</strong> most delightful; if He put me off, I will gently endure the loss. For He always<br />

rules our lives better than we could choose for ourselves.<br />

1742 Νύσιος=᾽Ινδικός. cf. Soph. Aj. 707. Nyssa was in the Punjab.<br />

To Eustathius the Philosopher.<br />

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