Letter 3023: Having dispatched my service of a letter to our common lord, I also pay the respects always owed to your dear...
Avitus episcopus viro illustrissimo Ceretio.
Ad domnum communem litterarum servitio destinato etiam dilectae mihi sublimi-
tati vestrae officia semper debenda persolvo: suadens, immo. quia tantum obduruistis,
supplicans, ut stomachos multis Sauconnae deliciis nauseantes tandem parcioribus
Iaeriae vestrae ieiuniis atteratis. Quodsi adeo nescitis desiderio vicissitudinem repen-
sare, ut nondum vobis videatur absentia vestra sufficere, iniuria coactus hoc opto
meque baiulo huius imprecationis ulciscor: ut mutentur praesentiae vices, quod Vienna
abundat, Cabillonus obtineat. Hic non habemus, quod debeat expeti: illuc mittamus,
quod libeat declinari. Et quia, quod dico, in via est, iam, si adhuc in loco retardatis,
excipite, si iam redire disponitis, praeterite.
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