Letter 3019: Thanks be to God, who, in keeping with my desires, makes my correspondence purposeful rather than idle, so that the...
XVIIII. ENNODIVS FAVSTO.
Deo gratias, qui iuxta desideria mea, ne aliquando ab scriptione
temperem, negotiosa facit esse conloquia: potest enim
et utilitati prodesse quod exigit uis amoris. proinde, domine,
indicia meae. ualitudinis faciens fugacem puerum uestrum
Germanum uocabulo, qui ante triennium lapsus est, me suspicor
inuenisse, de quo indiculum destinaui: qui si uere uester
est, mature sequenda cognoscam.
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