Letter 4009: King Theodoric to Osuin, Vir Illustris [Most Illustrious], Count.
VIIII. OSVIN V. I. COMITI THEODERICUS REX.
[1] Innocentiae professio est nostram elegisse praesentiam, ubi nec violentiae locus datur nec avaritiae vitia formidantur. Maurentius atque Paula patris auxilio nudati multorum se iniuriis testantur exponi: quorum adulescentia pervia videtur incommodis, cum facile possit subrepi vel iuvenibus destitutis. et ideo nostrum merentur praesidium, a quibus se calliditas non abstinet improborum. proinde sublimitas vestra tenorem praesentis iussionis agnoscens supra memoratos adultos, si quis iurgantium pulsare maluerit, ad nostrum comitatum noverit dirigendos, ubi et innocentia perfugium et calumniatores ius possint invenire districtum.
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