Letter 3040: Although a multitude of cares presses upon our compassionate mind and our customary diligence turns to the various...
XL. UNIVERSIS PROVINCIALIBUS IN GALLIIS CONSTITUTIS THEODERICUS REX.
[1] Quamvis sensum nostrae pietatis turba multiplex cogitationis intraret et diversas regni partes consueta sedulitate respiceret, festine tamen remedia vestrae utilitatis aspeximus, quoniam apud conscientiam nostram laesionis genus est profutura tardare nec possumus aestimare iucundum, quod ingrata fuerit dilatione suspensum. nam aegrescentibus morbis laesio debacchari permittitur, cum medicina differtur. [2] Vobis itaque hostili feritate vastatis pro qualitate laesionis per indictionem quartam relaxatam agnoscite tributariam functionem, quia non gratulamur exigere, quod tristis noscitur solutor offerre. ita tamen ut de illis, quae constat intacta, exercituales iuventur expensae: quia in totum devotio deserere non debet quos pro se laborare cognoscit. invalidus est siquidem ieiunus defensor nec animus ministrat audaciam, cum virtus corporeo fuerit robore destituta.
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