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A Slip of the Tongue in Greeting (13-15)

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Now in the book of instructions you always get from the emperor, isnt the first injunction to you to take care of your health? And rightly so. You would not be of much use otherwise. Indeed you yourselves, if I know any Latin, also often return the word Health [*] when you shake hands.

In saying all this I did not want deliberately to discard Joy to you and put Health in its place; this was an accidentit would be ridiculous for me to surprise you all by changing the usual times of the greetings.

I am grateful to heaven that my slip was a switch into something much more auspicious and slid into something better. Perhaps the goddess Health or Asclepius himself inspired me on purpose to promise you health through me. I could certainly never have done it without a gods intervention,

v.6.p.187
when I was never confused like this before in a long life.

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