Letter 8038: Petition is never ineffective when it reaches a man of justice and compassion.
Ennodius to Symmachus.
Petition is never ineffective when it reaches a man of justice and compassion. I bring my request to you confident that it will receive the hearing it deserves — not because I have any claim on your time, but because the cause itself does.
Consider it, and act as your conscience directs. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
XXXVIII. ENNODIVS SVMMACHO.
Non inefficaciter poseit qui parenti omnium peregrinos
insinuat: nobilibus generalis debetur adsertio, maxime apud
eos qui beneficia tribuunt non rogati. Beatum sublimem
adulescentem praesentium baiulum si corona uestra dignanter
excipiat, praeclarum iuxta morem pontificis ornat officium:
est enim qui gratiam uestram et natalibus mereatur et moribus.
sufficit dignis stricta laudatio. nunc seruitiis . salutationis
exhibitis rogo, ut me amantem uestri crebri releuetis promulgatione
conloquii.
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