Letter 7027: It is useful always to choose one person for the rest to obey, because if the will of many is left undirected, a...
XXVII.
FORMULA HONORATIS POSSESSORIBUS ET CURIALIBUS DE COMITIVA SUPRA SCRIPTA.
[1] Utile est unum semper eligere, cui reliqui debeant oboedire, quia, si voluntas diversorum vaga relinquitur, confusio culparum amica generatur. itaque civitatis vestrae comitivam per indictionem illam nos illi largitos fuisse noveritis, cui saluberrimam parientiam commodate, ut causis vestris ferat remedium, et iussionibus publicis procuret effectum: scituri quod, si quis se probabili devotione tractaverit, similia de nostris sensibus haud irrite postulabit.
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VARIAE, BOOK 6, FORMULA 25
You will recall, wisest of Emperors, that both through our ambassadors and through the very eloquent Peter, whom...