Letter 6003: Grand requests require a preamble; for easy favors, there's no need for elaborate pleading.
Praefato opus est, si ardua postulentur; pronis ac facilibns admoveri ambitum
non oportet. breviter igitur et strictim, quid frater mens Fulvins de vobis favoris
poscat, advertite. sororem Pompeiani olim viro matnram te auspice in manum optat
accipere, nec genere minor et re fbrtassis uberior. nam laudabiles vitae eins artes et
20 ex bonorum amicitiis spes secnndas inter sponsalia omamenta non numero ; sibi enim
qnisqne habet, quidquid laudi et spei ducitur. mihi autem tanta est perficiendae con-
innctionis huius antiqnitas, ut in gravi dono habitums sim, si illius votis cura vestra
profuerit. cnm igitnr res incepto honesta, effectu facilis postnletur, qnaeso, nt in pro-
movendo negotio, quantum me velle conicitis, adhibeatis industriam. vale.
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