Letter 19: I write to recall to your memory certain of my connections, and to commend to your paternal care a young man of...
Ennodii ad Symmachuin papam.
Fitios Laurentii viri sublimis papae commendai. ^
Ennodius Symmacho papae.
Quamvis sublimi viro Laurentio ^) assistat pro pignorum commen-
datione probitas sua, et patris prudentia causas sobolis exsequatur,
attamen sollicitudine genitali ad ampliora proce^it, et vix credit
pro filiis sufficere quod meretur. Adjutricem in adstipulatione ger-
minis paginam quaerit, et trepidante diligentia patrum ardorem
nititur cum universitate partiri Cogitate, si viro optimo negari
efiectus potuit et pia et justa poscenti. Tribuat Divinitas effectom
precibus ejus, et hunc beatitudinis vestrae nominatis conciliare digne-
tur afifectmn, ut erigat parvulos implorata coronae vestrae miseratio:
quatenus anxii circa ipsos genitoris vota superentur. Domine mi,
spero, ut promissa dudimi benignitas in ea parte testimonium ferat,
si comprehensis superius gcminatam impendi gratiam, qui per me
precatur, intelligat.
') Do eodem hujus viri negotio Ennodius agere videtur epist. rV, 11.
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