Letter 2031: I give thanks to your devotion for deigning to console me about the ordination of the city.
XXXI. RURICIUS EPISCOPUS CAPILLUTO FILIO SALUTEM.
Gratias ago pietati uestrae, quod me consolare de ciuitatis
ordinatione dignamini, cum uobis sufficere deo propitio satis
abundeque possitis. et ideo, quia, qui uobis et fratribus uestris
11] 1 Cor. 12, 30. 14] Iac. 5, 16. 15] Luo. 11, 5.
1 preualebit S acusantis S 5 quantum S 6 interiores S 9 nris
S, uestris v 10 sua largitatio v in textu, sua largitio v in notis
11 Paulum om. v 13 pro om. v cotidiae S 17 petiit, fieri potest
suppl. Mommseum prastitum S insistentes S 19 indicare v 20 tardita
S 21 dignimini S 24 consulere v ciuitatis S, antistitis Luet-
johann, ciuis talis Mommsenus, inter uerba ciuitatis et ordinatione excidisse
electione et uestra suspicatur Kr . 26 abundique S quij quod r
I
placet, nobis displicere non debet, bene facitis, ut hominem,
quem communis consensus elegit, ordinetis. sed admonete
illum, ut ueritati studeat, non falsitati, paci, non perditioni,
disciplinae, non discordiae, utilitati publicae, non priuatae cupiditati,
iustitiae, non rapinae. tueatur bonos, emendet reos,
miseros non faciat, sed defendat, corrigat sontes, custodiat
innocentes, ut ita agens magis futuro possit placere iudicio
quam praesenti.
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