Letter 7015: ...I entered Milan on the day before the Kalends of March [February 28], after a long and winding detour.
tam kalendas Martias Mediolanmm multo anfracto circumvectus intraverim venera- i5
tusque dominum et principem nostrum, cuius sermo divinus itineris mei conpensavit
laborem, in praesentiam viri cuncta praecelsi comitis agenda produco; quem mox
deo iuvante adfore nuntiorum confirmat adsertio. nunc tuae curae sit, decus nostrum,
peregrinationis meae curas stili adsiduitate solari.
AD ATTALVM. 20
XV a. 397 ?
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