Letter 2029: When you vouch for a good man, you recommend your own judgment as much as you help his cause.
Pro optimis viris quisquis intervenit, non magis illomm videtur iuvare commodum
quam suum commendare iudicium. quare in eo, quod fratris mei Maximi desideria
20 litteris prosequor , non tam illi usui sum , quam mihi laudi est. est enim vita atque
eruditione liberalium disciplinamm pariter insignis neque ulli praestantium philoso-
phorum secundus ac propterea tua familiaritate dignissimns. cuius tibi negotia cum
in rem missus absolverit, quaeso, nt humanitate, qna clams es, iustas petitiones in-
gravato auxilio prosequaris.
25 XXX a. 389.
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