Letter 9005: This letter contains multiple fragmentary sections heavily mixed with critical apparatus.
20 Consuetudinem meam servo et religiosa in amicos instituta custodio. quare sa-
lutationis honore praefato mutuum de te posco responsum, et si memoria viget man-
datorum meorum, ut securum me de apparatu praetoriae functionis facere digneris,
exhortor. crescit enim per dies singulos cura apud me, quoniam propinquat editio,
et nihil de vestibus atque animalibus, quae olim sub aestimatione ac definitione tua
25 per meos coemi debuerunt, miror exhibitum. et quoniam sollicitor tarditatis, nota- 2
rium meum misi, qui tuis praeceptis et monitis obsecutus devehenda cuncta suscipiat
actoresque nostros ad pretia, quae statueris hactenus tuum declinasse
conspectum. tandem igitur partes religionis exequere, ut exemplo diligentiae tuae in
officiorum vidssitudinem provocemur. vale.
30 XVI a. 399-401.
SAProiANO.
Leontius agens in rebus et honestate vitae et militiae exercitatione bonis quibus-
que placitus meum quoque iudicium adsidua diligentia provocavit. inter amicos igitur
4 expostnlatlouibus] luretus^ expostulantibus U 5 flne] /\ flde {U) 7 praetorius] luretuB,
praetorios (/7), praeoonos F sparsim in] luretus, pars in {n)r egit retinet et ignotos] F, egit re-
liquis omUah (/7), aupple: ludorumque expectatio retinet et ignotos vel simile quid
21 de te posco] {F), deposco (/7) 27 actoresque nostros ad pretia quae statueris «*» actenus
tuum declinasse conspectum] F, om, (27), actoresqne nostros ad pretia, quae statueris soluenda inpeUat, ne
peouniarum uideantur inopia bactenus tuum declinasse conspectum Scioppiuay vix recte 29 uicissitudine {U)
240 SYMMACHI EPISTVLAE
n ac familiares meos iure nuraeratur. hanc tibi in mannm trado petens. nt exemplnm
nostrae circa eum adfectionis imiteris; quod te sednlo praesumo facturnm. interea
de animalibns ludorum apparatui praeparandis admonitionem frequentare non desino,
cnm ineam sponsionem. quod iam me istins curae yacuum reddidisti. mandavi tamen
Leontio monitoris officium , cui aurem praebere dignaberis , si quando ipse publica et 5
maiora tractanti hanc quoque petitionem domestica insinuatione suggesserit. vale.
xvn.
AD VENVSTVM.
Integrum mihi situm praetorii mei et picturam quandam fabrilis operis ante ocu-
los conlocasti; ita adaperta distributio vel adhuc adsurgentia vel iam absoluta sig- 10
navit. dissimulo igitur meorum tantisper accusare s^gnitiem, qui in iisdem molitio-
nibus fabricatione haeserunt, dum suavitate paginae tuae mulceor. volo tamen rele-
gendo tione castiges. vicem mei fellis exerceas, ut de tua
obiurgatione coniciat, quanta illi pemicies, nisi omissa curaverit, ex mea indignatione
metuenda sit. i^
XVm a. 399.
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