A lost letter returnsSourced
A doctor lost his books in a fire.
His account was lost too.
After a fire in Rome in AD 192 destroyed his books and medical tools, the physician Galen wrote about facing grief. His Greek text was later thought lost until a manuscript was found in a Greek monastery library in 2005.
An account of loss
returned after centuries.
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