Letter 3010: The delicacies you sent are indeed magnificent and wonderfully generous — in their quantity, their timing, and their...
Avitus episcopus Maximo episcopo.
Magnae quidem et nimis admirandae sunt deliciae, quas misistis, copia, tempore,
dignitate; sed tamen affectui, pietati, sollicitudini non aequantnr. Per quae probatur
non tam dignatio vestra nobis quam praesentia defuisse. Expleta est suffragiorum
vestrorum prosperitate festivitas: cui quantum accessit corporalium, tantum a consue-
tudine spiritalium defuit epularum. Quas mihi deus, si in futuro tribuit commeatum,
sicut nunc per vos transmittere, ita tunc vobiscum exhibere dignetur.
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