Letter 1110: It's certainly in your nature to use your influence to help everyone who distinguishes himself in imperial service.
20 Tuae equidem virtutis est omnes, qui palatinis stipendiis enitescunt, invare prae-
sidio ; sed specialis a me viro optimo Romano cura debetur amicitiae gratia, quae inter
nos longa adolevit aetate. quare si quid testimonio meo tribuis, nolo dubites, dignum
esse, quem diligas, et quem maximis officiis munereris. certe si examen de eo habere
digneris, pronuntiabis meis litteris defuisse, quae in illius meritis invenies redun-
35 diure. vale.
CV (LXXXXVim) a. 376?
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