Letter 5066: It is an act full of piety that you spontaneously anticipate a brother's wish.
Plenum religionis officium est, quod sponte votum fratris antevenis. proxime igitur
familiares nostri ad equorura coemptionem cum pretiis commeabunt, ut ex omnibus i»
quadrigis, quas scripsisti esse venales, praestantiores cursu et genere pollentes defloret
electio. haec autera tibi cura sumenda est, ut praeteritis editionibus nostris recens
ludorum fama respondeat. inprimis igitur hanc de te gratiam peto^ ne magis numerum
quam merita perpendas. nam cum de Hispaniis copiam mihi equorum spes certa pro-
mittat, hos, quos de proximo polliceris, securior diligentia debet excerpere. is
LXXXm (LXXXI) a. 399.
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