Letter 21: Your uncle Victorius, a man as distinguished as he was universally learned, composed verses with supreme power among...
EPISTULA XXI
Sidonius Sacerdoti et Iustino suis salutem.
1. Victorius patruus vester, vir, ut egregius, sic undecumque doctissimus, cum cetera potenter, tum potentissime condidit versus. mihi quoque semper a parvo cura Musarum; nunc vos parenti venitis heredes, quam iure, tam merito: ilicet ego poetae proximus fio professione, vos semine. ergo iustissimum est, ut diem functo sic quisque nostrum succedat, ut iungitur. ideoque patrimonia tenete, date carmina. valete.
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