Letter 6002: The greatest joy of all is a letter-carrier who turns up at just the right moment — one who, as a servant of...
II. ENNODIVS FAVSTO.
Summa gaudiorum est opportunitas perlatoris, qui minister
diligentiae per necessitates suas desideriis obsequiam praestat
alienis. hunc quidem honestas commendat et peregrinus ab
officio mercatoris pudor insinuat. iungitur quod notitia culminis
uestri ad fidem probitatis accessit. nam scriptionis
uenerandae frugibus ipso commeante satiatus sum. refundo
ergo depositum officii lege constrictus et quem in Liguria
positum pro uirium mediocritate suscepi ad potissima patrocinia
tabella prosequente trasmitto. quod superest, reuerentiae
uestrae quicquid habet humilitas deuotionis offerimus, supplicans,
ut litteras uestras uel pro mearum adsiduitate iam merear.
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