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Letter 8029: We wish you to know that the welfare of your city is always in our thoughts.

Cassiodorus→Honorati, landowners, defenders, and curials of city of Tridentum (Trento)|c. 522 AD|Cassiodorus
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XXVIIII.
HONORATIS POSSESSORIBUS ET CURIALIBUS PARMENSIS CIVITATIS ATHALARICUS REX.

[1] Dignum est, ut libenti animo faciatis quae iuberi pro urbis vestrae utilitate cognoscitis: nam quod proprio sumptu decuit aggredi, compendiose vobis constat offerri. civitatem siquidem vestram diutina siccitate laborantem iuvante deo domnus avus noster saluberrima unda rigavit. [2] Cui nunc studio vestro cloacarum ora pandantur, ne, sordium obiectione tardata, reciprocans unda vestris aedibus illidatur et quas debuit abluere, easdem vobis cogatur inferre. cui operi, quamquam vos urgere debeat civicus amor, virum spectabilem Genesium praecipimus imminere, ut nos ad meliora provocetis, si quae iussimus gratanter efficitis.

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