Letter 4022: Although the distinguished Laurentius attends to your cause with the devotion it deserves, I add my own voice — not...
XXII. SVMMACHO PAPAE ENNODIVS.
Quamuis sublimi uiro Laurentio adsistat pro pignorum commendatione
probitas sua. et patris prudentia causas subolis
exequatur, attamen sollicitudine genitali ad ampliora procedit et
uix credit pro filiis sufficere quod meretur. adiutricem in
adstipulatione germinis paginam quaerit et trepidante diligentia
patrium ardorem nititur cum uniuersitate partiri. cogitate si
uiro optimo negari effectus potuit et pia et iusta poscenti.
tribuat diuinitas effectum precibus eius et hunc beatitudinis
uestrae nominatis conciliare dignetur affectum, ut erigat paruulos
inplorata coronae uestrae miseratio, quatenus anxii circa ipsos
genitoris uota superentur. domine mi, spero ut promissa dudum
benignitas in ea parte testimonium ferat, si conprehensis superius
geminatam inpendi gratiam qui per me precatur intellegat.
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