Letter 1022: People who lack confidence in themselves seek letters of recommendation from me.
Qui sua fiducia deseruntur, epistulas meas in usum commendationis accipiunt. id
nunc aliter est. nam fratri meo Potito hac condicione litteras dedi, ut eas ipse com-
mendet. est enim nihilo secus, atque ego sum, de summatibus amicorum tuorum. qui 15
ubi te conpotem fecerit praesentiae suae, vereor ne excusatio mea ignoscenda non sit.
sed si mihi placabilitas tua experiundo probe cognita est, futurum reor, non ut me,
qui resedi, conlatione venientis alterius incessas, sed ut illum magis pro utroque sus-
cipias. vale.
XX (KY) a. 378. 20
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