Letter 3041: Any burden becomes tolerable when it is distributed fairly, because a shared load is certain not to crush those...
XLI. GEMELLO V. S. THEODERICUS REX.
[1] Tolerabile fit omne quod aequabili ordinatione disponitur, quia divisum onus sub communione subiectos certum est non gravare: pars enim extrema ad unumquemque redit, cum summa universos incluserit. [2] Tritici itaque speciem, quam ob exercituales expensas nostra providentia de Italia destinavit, ne fatigata provincia huius praebitione laederetur, ad castella supra Druentiam constituta de Massiliensibus horreis constat esse portandam. [3] Quapropter iubemus ut studium devehendi supradictae speciei commune subeatur, quatenus celeriter possit fieri, quod universitatis studio videtur assumi.
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