nihil enim est durius, quam cum praesentes amici dividuntur communione languoris; quippe si accidat, ut nec intra unum conclave decumbant, nulla sunt verba, nulla solacia, nulla denique mutui oratus vicissitudo: ita singulis maeror ingens, isque plus de altero; nam parum possis quamquam et infirmus periclitante quem diligas tibi timere.
There is nothing more distressing than when two friends not sundered by distance are in fact separated by their common illness; for if it happens that they are not even laid up in the same room, there can be no conversation, no attempt at comfort, above all no reciprocity of prayers for one another; so each of them carries a heavy weight of grief, but more on his friends account; for a patient, however ill, cannot feel anxious about himself when a dear friend is in danger.
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