Letter 5017: Your Greatness does well when you honor both your birth and your character equally.
XVII. AVIENO ENNODIVS.
Bene magnitudo uestra, dum origini et moribus praestat
obsequium, emendationem sine interuallo coniungit errori et
quod peccatum sapienter intellegit, priusquam altero denuntietur,
auertit. quis credat deliquisse in correctione uelocissimum?
pene non uocandus est sectator excessuum qui obuiam
manum ponit in subreptione culparum. haec, mi domine, ad
ea, quae es dignatus scribere, gratia uestra duce respondeo.
ceterum humiliorem me proposito actuum meorum pondera
reddiderunt: uix miseria remansi idoneus reformare conloquia.
domine mi, salutationis obsequia praesentans deum rogo, qui
culminibus uestris fructum pro hac qua humilem non spernitis
consideratione restituat.
1 tu om. B, recte fort., nam alter uel PamfroniuB intercidisse uidetur
2 de om. P\'b dei om. B 3 concede Lx sponditur
B 4 prestitum B mihi BLV 5 tribues B
dominum PTb 7 comulo B decerpsisti] finit add. B
XYIL 9 ennodius auieno LV 10 uestra] tua P2T 12 defitietur
LT 13 auertet B, aduertit T delinquisse B 14 ezcess∗u
̃ L 16 que B dignatus ea Pb 17 caeterum LV
I
me] te Pb act.ū L 18 misera T 19 m V, mi∗∗ L, mihi
B salutationes Lx 21 restituatj legi add. BLPTYb, initium
ut uidetur subscriptionis formulae cutus uestigium B etiam in fine
Dictionis XXI fol . 179? exhtbet ENNODITS EMENDAVI MEAM DEO MEO
IVTASTE
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