Letter 5: Your Clemency is right to trust, as your glorious letter conveyed to me, that your republic will especially prosper...
HORKISDA ANASTASIO ArGUSTO. PER SEUERIANUM. Beue cIb-
mentia uestra confidit, sicut datis ad me gloriosis designauit affatibus, quod rei publicae uestrae specialiter proficiat, si negotiis omnibus orthodoxae fidei causa praeponatur. haec est enim, uenerabilis imperator, de suscepto moderamine rectoris so cura salubrior, ut eius sibi fauorem per opera bona conciliet, 2 qui uniuersum et tribuet et reget imperium. proinde me quoque et domino nostro lesu Christo conuenit supplicare, ut qui de ecclesiae suae concordia pietatem uestram cogitare uoluit, hunc super hac parte concedere dignetur effectum, 25 quatenus temporibus uestris orthodoxa fide praeditus uniuersus terrarum orbis exultet. de his uero, quae pro synodali con-
1 quia 0: qua V 4 areodeotana F, corr. 9 quos 0: quod com- pendio pictum V 11 eracleotanam V die F, corr. 0 14 mias V
110. Dat a. 515 die 8 lul. per Seuerianum; respondet epistulae 109, Edd. Car. P 441; Bar. ad a. 515, 16; CoUect. Concil; BTA I 371; Thiel 747. 16 per Seuerianum minutiore charactere in ipso uerhorum ordine V 22 tribuit et regit Bar, 23 et fort. delendum 24 qui de 0: qui d V
Epist. CIX 2 — CXI 5.
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gregatione praecepistis, quid fieri opoiteat, per fratres et coepiscopos meos, qui propere subsequentur, gloriae uestrae insinuanda mandaui, quorum suggestione, si diuinus fauor mea uota prosequitur, competentius poteritis uniuersa cogno- 5 scere. Data VIII. Idus lul. Florentio consule.
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