Letter 7013: Conflicting rumors slowed my journey.
Iter meuni fainae varietas retardavit. nam dum exploro tuta et loDgitudinem
viae dierum interpositione distinguo, tandem sextum kalendas Martias Mediolanium per
Ticeni longinqua perveni. nunc laborem meum domini et principis nostri blandus s
sermo solatus est. spero etiam legationem brevi in notitiam divini principis per-
ferendam; siquidem vir cuncta praecelsus, cui primas partes causae publicae noster
ordo mandavit, mox cum praesidiis validissimis adfore nuntiatur. vestro silentio ve-
hementer offendor atque ideo peto, ut peregrinationis meae patientiam crebro iuvetis
adfatu. 10
Xim a. 402.
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