Letter 12005: I was harder on you in my last letter than perhaps I needed to be.
Pervenit ad me, quia ex eo tempore, quo* dilectionem tuam verbis asperis^ propter
quaedam, quae mihi iure displicuerant °, contristavi, magha tibi sif* oborta® tristitia
Mense cei,: ita Q,Q*f qui oct et uuv abhr,; m. octb ind. om, eet, R; menso novembrio indictione
qiiinta oni, cet, R*l,
XIIf4 in titulo: Passibo q* — add, Firmano, ut videtur, q3. ») Aprudontiura Q*2.3; Abrutiam
Vat. A (ed. M.). *>) iia tcr,; causQ eodd. «) ita R; om. hoc verb. q1; qui q*.q3, ordinare
debuisso q1. •) ita R; InportunO q1; luportunus Q*l; Importunus q*2.3. 0 laudatur Rl. 8) boni Ql.
^) multa Rl, ita Rl; tunc orandus q1; tunc hortandus q*.q3. ita com. Mommsen, dumtaxat
£kr.; deo dictum R1.q*.q3; dui dictuni q1; deo dutactum R2, grandia, suprascr. vel g^avia q3.
™) ir perfectus ex debeatis corr, R2,
XII y 5 in titulo: de Abrutio Q*.Ql. Vctt. A. E (ed. M,); de Abrucio R* 1; episcopo de Abrutio Vat. B;
O. abbati (om. cet.) Vat, D (ed, M,). a) quod q3. *>) aspiris Ql. displicuerat RI.qI.q*!.
XII, 4. De Passivo, ep, Ftrtnatw, cf, ep. IX, 51 n. 1. l) De castro Aprutio cf, ep. IX, 71 (n. 2),
ex qua elucet iam ind. II mem. Nov.-Dec. sedem Aprutinam vacasse, et ep, seq. 2) Cf. ep. seq,
XII, 5. Cf, ep. praeced.
IXDKTIO y. OCT. NOV. (XII. 4) — lAN. (XII, «).
atquc continuuN aninii^ nuieror. Undc tc, dilectissimc fili, volo cognosccrc, quia illa»
ego*' vcrbtt non iiKpcritatc cordis, Hcd aniorc tuac' aniniac suni locutus. Tu itaquc ad
omnipotcntem Dcum tota mcntc oonvcrtcre; quam nihil sit fugitiva^ praesens vita
eonsidera: aeterna praemia lucrari fcstina; in quantum virtus sufficit, castiga carnem,
quac, quando* in voluptatibus"' vixit, animani castigavit. Bcnignitatem tuam proximis"
exhibe^; psalmodiac ct laorimiH horart»' vitac frcquentius impcndc; inhita mala a pro-
xiniis aequanimiter'1 tolcra. Si contru vcritatcm iniuriam pertulcris, lucrum puta, ut
haec agens'' per temporalia, quac dcspicicndo* pateris. ad caelcstia* regna pertingas.
MENSE lANUARIO INDICTIONE V.
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