Letter 21: The young man I am commending this time is the sublimest of adolescents, and I say this not as empty praise — you...
Ennodii ad Symmachum papam.
Juvenem nobilem studia Romana requirentem pontifici commendat.
Ennodius Symmacho.
lem necessariam providet, qui parenti^) omniimi orbatos et
rinos insinuat. Unica via est apostolatus vestri solatium^ quae
Officia iUa sua dicit, quae in causa Sjmmachi praestiterat sive factia
num variarum expensis (conf. Ennod. epist. III, 10. V, 13. VI, 16 et 33)
>nBcripta synodi Y apologia.
Schotti ed. addit c^jus.
Hoc nomine pontificem universalem honorat, jam tunc inter temporum
(8 fere unicum fluctuantium populorum et studiorum liberalium refugium.
ex hisce Htteris discimus, Romam tum praecipuam ejuamodi studiorum
reputatam esse, quam undique juvenes nobiles earum rerum soUertes
it.
medetur extemis. Absit afflictos dicere^ quos ad vos contigerit pei-
venisse: creatoris patriam^ opes alibi non requinint; qnos ooronM
vestrae cura susceperit. Praesentum bajuluS; ortus nobiliter^ pto-
futura ad testimonium ingenuitatis studia Bomana requirit. li\mc
beatitudini vestrae mea supplicis vestri commendat assertio^ ut salu-
tatioiiis servitiis dignauter acceptiS; quod usu faciti*s, pro mei con-
sideratione geminetur.
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There are several young men from good families who are currently in Rome pursuing the studies that the city still...