Letter 2017: If you haven't yet learned about my son Nicasius's praiseworthy character and honorable way of life, then accept as...
20 Si necdum filii mei Nicasii laudabiles mores et honestum institutum didicisti, accipe
pro eo locupletissimum vadimonium, meum Promotum virtute et humanitate conspi-
cuum , cui iamdiu praenota6ih' familiaritate sociatur , et bona optimi iuvenis de illius
expende iudicio. iusta enim coniectura est^ qnae de amicomm pondere et aestimatione
colligitur. nam meae adstipulationis minor causa est, cum superioris persona prae-
25 ponderet. cuius honori tribuendum est, ut a te non ut novus subdendus examini sed
ut iam probatus habeatur.
XVn a. 382.
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