Letter 10015: Our desire is fulfilled whenever we have the opportunity to send a salutary letter to your piety, because the man...

15. KING THEODAHAD TO THE EMPEROR JUSTINIAN. [1] It is certain that the desire of our will is fulfilled whenever it falls to us to dispatch health-bringing letters to your Piety, since he is always filled with happy joy who converses with you in a sincere mind. And therefore, greeting your Clemency with fitting honor, I commend to you with a most welcome petition the bearer of this letter, who comes on behalf of the business of the Church of Ravenna: since such an occasion of granting is offered, where a reward seems to be acquired, which those always long to do who desire that your Serenity should flourish. For there is no doubt that those receive better things whom it befalls to render just ones.

XV. IUSTINIANO IMPERATORI THEODAHADUS REX. [1] Constat desiderium nostrae voluntatis expleri, quotiens ad pietatem vestram salutiferos apices contigerit destinari, quia semper felici gaudio repletur, qui vobiscum sincera mente colloquitur. et ideo salutans clementiam vestram honorificentia competenti harum portitorem pro negotio Ravennatis ecclesiae venientem gratissima vobis petitione commendo: quando talis offertur causa praestandi, ubi merces videatur adquiri, quam vos facere semper exoptant qui serenitatem vestram florere desiderant. non est enim dubium meliora recipere, quos contingit iusta praestare.