Letter 9124: I have heard that you have been ill, and I write to offer whatever consolation words can provide.
AD DONELLUM EROGATOREM.
Egrum consolatur. Gaudet de militari roga illi denuo
impozila. (Juam exarchus mutuo acceperat pecuniam
retiluendam monet. Roman civilati precipua cura
8ubveniat.
Gregorius Donello ® erogatori.
Epistolam gloria vestrz plenam boni filii chari-
late Suscepimus, ex qua quidem de molestia corpo-
ns vestri noster est animus contristatus. De divina
amen miseratione conlidimus quod qui vos miseram
« dejectam diligere fecit Italiam, ipse vobis et cor-
joris 8alulem restituat, et in zlerna retributione
wmpenset. De-militari enim Þ roga, quam vos con-
na voluntatem vestram principali significastis jussio-
te ilerum SusSCepisse, omnino Sumus libenter com -
Nexi, scientles quia magnitudo vestra Eautiori salu-
riorique provisione militari necessitati concurrat.
De © sex vero centenariis qui in cimiliarchio Ra-
reanatis Ecclesiz fuerant commendati, sicut vesira
es{atur epistola, ab excellentissimo exarcho in quo-
diana militum preſectura sunt mutuati, YOZZ qui
it hactenus 4 minime reslituantur cujus $it causa
0gnoscitis. Quod enim scripsisiis hoc prazdicto lilio
ErisT, CXXIV [Al. 129]. — * Unde nomen hoe
oſicii deductum, in epistola explicatur his verbis :
de militari enim roga, etc.
* Centenaria, auri pondo interpretantur quidam.
idorus ait (quod verum est) centenarium fuisse cen-
wn librarum, atque inde appellatum. Graci. dicunt
AYToapwy, GUSSANY.
pore, in his locis nisi solius divine potentia maje-
Slatis humanum non prevalet subvenire remediun.
Sciens ergo magnitudo vestra voluntatem domino-
rum principum, quanta cura de Roman civitatis
praxcipue snbventione $it provida, quod ex donis
eorum evidenter agnoscilur, sed et partium istarum
* imminens periculum et, civitatis, omnino cure
luz es! cum pecuniis huc venire. Quod si omissum
ſuerit, et adversi aliquid, quod non optamus, evene-
rit, neque apud Deum neque apud rerum dominos
cujuslibet oblenlu pergonz v0S excusare quoquo
modo valeatis. Romana enim civitas, peccatis no-
slris ſacientibus, diversis est atlrita languoribus , ut
nec qui in murorum cuslodia sint idonei persistaut.
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