Letter 6025: Your Greatness knows what devotion I bear you.
XXV. ENNODIVS FAVSTO.
Scit magnitudo uestra quo me honorent praeiudicio studiorum
liberalium sectatores tamquam rem sibi debitam commendationis
meae scripta poscentes. in usu est uos beneficia, me
uerba conferre et magnitudinem rerum desiderium uincere
postulantis. si ab his muniis temperem, saluo munerum uestrorum
genio, ego uotum beniuoli non habebo. perlator praesentium
1 iutus LTV, iustus Bb, adiutus Sirm., iussus coni. Schottus
XXIIII. 4 arcotamie T 5 affectionis ius LTV 6 prolexitate
B 7 nectet Bb 9 nesciuntur LTV 10 cUusa L (a
eras.) 12 uendicant B (eorr. rec. ?) Tb 14 prcBtitit B
16 portitor] potior Bb benificii B .
XXV. 21 honerent B sed onorent s. I. m. rec- B, onerent b
22 sectatoris B 23 ustun BlLTlV 24 magnitudine BTb ,
rerumJ tiestram fort . 25 Balua Bx (ut uidetur) b 26 beniuoli B*
LTV v/non B habeo Tlb
11*
Pertinax teste apud uos natalium suorum pudore uulgabitur,
qui in adstipulatione stemmatis usurus est bono uerecundiae,
per quem indiciis ualitudinis meae pro uestro desiderio factis
precor, ut fiduciae suae fructum capiat ex dignationis uestrae
messe locupletem, et quotiens uotiuus conmeantum cursus accesserit,
ad subleuandum me quas in amoris solacio accipitis
paginas destinate.
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