Letter 2031: ...and you care for me, but I worry that you might take up some fight on my behalf while I'm away and draw hostility...
et amantem mei, et vereor, ne snscipias nllnm pro absentis existimatione certamen i5
atque in te aliqua odia detorqneas. peto igitur, nt qniescas. erit fortasse copia mihi
adserendae qnandoqne apnd aetemnm principem dominum nostram Theodosinm veri-
tatis, cuius erga me favor fecit, ut aliqnid interim moliretur invidia. non pnto eam
causae meae bonis temporibns condicionem futuram, qnae sub tyranno fuit, cuius lit-
teris ad Marcellini suggestionem datis homines meos scis esse multatos. quod in 20
panegyrici defensione non tacui.
XXXn a. 389?
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