Letter 5043: Everyone who hopes to be helped by gaining access to you takes -- in my judgment -- no fruitless path to winning...
Omnes, qui aditu tuo cupiunt sublevari, non cassam, quantum arbitror, viam ca-
pessnnt ineundae gratiae, cum me adstipulatore nitantur. horum unus vir probabilis
Turasius familiaris meus, qui indictae sibi litis iniuriam fortunae imputat, gratiam
10 vero boni reditus de tuo potissimum sperat auxilio. tuere igitur aequa poscentem et
humanitatis tuae latius extende famam, quae incrementis maximis cumulabitur, si
Turasio per te seounda successerint.
LXI (LVnn).
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