Letter 5042: The urgency of a repeated request adds great weight to my first petition, and so I press my case again about...
Primis petitionibus nostris multum ponderis addit iteratio , et ideo de venatoribus
exhibendis repeto postulatum, quo facilius tibi diligentiam geminata scripta sollicitent.
dies muneris nostri temporis admovetur; cui largitas candidati sola non suf- 30
persecutonim V 9 dyptichum P, dypticum F, dypticum Af et apoforetum P, et a^feritum F, om» M
argenti dnarum eorr. ex agenduarum P 1 m, 10 seditioni V re] epo, om, PVM
17 «q* aur. symmacbi. uc. explic ad sallustium incip eiusdem ad paternum P, om, VM 19 om. VM
20 quo die thalasgi om. VM^ lasai in ra$, P 21 actioni VM 23 promouit] lurctus, promouebit PVM
mUe quidj temporis del. Mommsen
ficit, si lautioribus harenariis deseratur. inepta est enini munificentia, quae praestatur PVF
indignis. quapropter quaeso te, ut venatorum potissimos auctoritate iudicis et fratris
amore concedas multum rebus omnibus additurus, quas civium voluptati animoso in-
pendio praeparamus.
5 LX (LVIII) ante a. 399.
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