Letter 5015: After the usual greetings, let me introduce our copyist — not as a favor but as a professional assessment.
EPISTULA XV
Sidonius Ruricio suo salutem.
1. Officii sermone praefato bybliopolam nostrum non gratiose sed iudicialiter expertus insinuo, cuius ut fidem in pectore, sic in opere celeritatem circa dominum [te] mihi sibique communem satis abunde probavi. librum igitur hic ipse deportat heptateuchi, scriptum velocitate summa, summo nitore, quamquam et a nobis relectum et retractatum. defert volumen et prophetarum, licet me absente decursum, sua tamen cura manuque de supervacuis sententiis eruderatum, nec semper illo contra legente, qui promiserat operam suam; credo, quia infirmitas fuerit impedimento, quominus pollicita compleret.
2. restat, ut exhortatio vestra seu sponsio famulum sic vel studentem placere vel meritum gratia competenti remuneretur; quae utique pro tali labore si solvitur, incipiet ad vestram respicere mercedem. sed cum hoc ego de sola gratia precer, vos quid mereatur aspicite quem constat affectum domini magis ambire quam praemium. vale.
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