Letter 3024: While the perpetual cause of love always supplies reason enough to pay my respects to your greatness, and while I...
Avitus episcopus viro illustri Helladio.
Cum ad officium vestrae magnitudini deferendum perpetua semper causa suppetat
caritatis et specialem devotionis observantiam iure debeam obnixae impensius pietati:
nunc tamen desideratam mihi necessitatem ratio festivitatis indixit, ut affectui vestro
litterarum praesentarer officio, qui cuperem et occursu. Idcirco reverentia suspectans
debita, quam et ex voto festam celebraveritis, inquiro redemptoris nostri inexhaustam
deprecans largitatem, ut centenaria sua protectione vos provehat et ad ornatum nostrum,
sicut hactenus fecit, bonis omnibus remuneratos attollat.
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