Letter 11034: Your petition will be held on file by the office until I can, when opportunity permits, obtain the consent of those...

34. Spoken at the suggestion of Anthianus. [1] The office shall hold back your petition until we may inquire into the consent of those who follow, while there is opportunity, since that is rashly entrusted to one man which ought to be affirmed by many. Go forth, all of you who are advanced. Be all of you happily approved. You have endured nothing doubtful, since every judgment is held to be uncertain. The alpha alone embraces you, where that letter is not feared. For thus has each one made use of his own wish, just as though it had not depended upon another's decision.

XXXIIII. ANTHIANO SUGGERENTE DICTUM EST. [1] Petitionem tuam retinebit officium, donec consensum sequentium, dum facultas fuerit, inquiramus, quia uni incaute creditur quod est a plurimis asserendum. ite omnes provecti. estote cuncti feliciter approbati. nil sustinuistis dubium, dum omne iudicium habeatur incertum. sola vos alpha complectitur, ubi ea littera non timetur. sic enim unusquisque proprio usus est voto, tamquam de alieno non pependisset arbitrio.