Letter 5018: I was glad — genuinely glad — to learn that you have begun to preside over the city of the Aedui [Autun].
EPISTULA XVIII
Sidonius Attalo suo salutem.
1. Haeduae civitati te praesidere coepisse libens atque cum gaudio accepi. laetitiae causa quadripartita est: prima, quod amicus; secunda, quod iustus es; tertia, quod severus; quarta, quod proximus. quo fit, ut nostris nostrorumque contractibus plurimum velis debeas possis opitulari. igitur amplectens in familiari vetusto novum ius potestatis indeptae materiam beneficiis tuis iam diu quaero. quibus me tantum fidere agnosce, ut, etsi non invenio quae poscam, quaesiturus mihi videaris ipse quae tribuas. vale.
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