Letter 2042: I am getting ahead of your voluntary generosity with a formal request, so that what you would freely give may appear...
Voluntaria beneficia tua petitione praevenio, ut quae tu sponte tribuis, ego videar
impetrare et bonum naturae tuae in gratiam meam transeat. Nicagoran clarissimum
1 fort. adfolserit 2 oale add. VF
quitur epist. K, 78 y magnae et insperatae poasnnt occultaii. uale M, sequitur epist. V, 81 9 insolentis P
mae P l m. famulos toos praecipuus atque honorabilis F
20 haec epiatula in VF po$t ///, 4^ Ugitur inBeriptionem om. VF 21 Ignacio P, In ocio K,
Egtiatio Mommsen in eum] meum V, in eo F 22 fort. nam parcior de illo testimonii cautione pro-
miseram praemiseram F 23 coepisti F expliravit P 1 m. V 24 posset V 25 uale add. VF
sequitur in V 1111, 21
56 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE
PF virum Siciliae fascibus functum sub custodiam adesse iussisti. hunc tibi et suae vitae
integritas et merita fraterna commendant. accedit illi ad praerogativam precatio mea;
qui etsi spero, probitati eius responsuram beneficentiam tuam, sedulo tamen postulo,
ut sanctissimo iuveni in bonum vertat exhibitionis occasio. vale.
XXXXn a. 383—394. 5
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