Letter 2085: You judged rightly and commendably that our brother Tatianus, the spectabilis, should be entrusted with the task.

You judged rightly and commendably that our brother Tatianus, a man of senatorial rank [vir spectabilis], ought to take part in your consulship; since indeed fairness demanded that he should enjoy the satisfaction of his own wish. He has never yielded to any of us in his love for you; on the contrary, he has always claimed for himself the foremost role of devotion toward you. And so he requires no other witness. For he knows that he has [...] more standing with your heart than he could win by any words of mine. I therefore leave him to his own confidence, since nothing can be more complete than it, content only to add this much: that I too, in his name, am to be bound to you, if he has received any favor. Letter 85 (84). Year 393.

Recte et probabiliter iudicasti, fratrem nostmm Tatianum spectabilem vimm con- sulatui tuo interesse debere; siquidem aequitas postulabat, ut voti sui voluptate fme- retur. nulli umquam nostmm tui amore cessit, quin immo semper primas sibi erga te partes observantiae vindicavit. itaque testem alium non requirit. scit enim sibi ^^ plus esse loci apud tuum animum, quam posset meo sermone conquirere. relinquo igitur eum fiduciae suae, qnia nihil potest esse cumulatius, boc tantum subicere con- tentus, me quoque tibi eius nomine, si quid gratiae ceperit, obligandum. LXXXV (LXXXHH) a. 393.