Letter 9007: A personal matter draws me to seek your friendship, though your distinguished family and fine character would have...
Votiva me in amicitiam tuam causa deducit, quamvis ob decus generis et morum
tuorum familiaritas tua mihi fuerit ambienda. praetura filii mei — fors dictum iu-
vet — equis curulibus instruenda est. dudum per meos gregibus tuis pe-
coris 30
4 quod iam me istlus] ego^ quam me istius Fy tu me huins (IT)
11 signitiem (II) 12 relegendo *********t\one castiges] Py relegendo ******************* ca-
stiges (H), uolo tamen relegendo iter Gapuanum architecti nostri tarditatem seuera oratione oastiges et uicem
mei fellis exerceas Scioppius 13 uicem] (17), ut uicem F
Hispanias] (77), hispaniam F mitteremus] (r), misimus F 20 exhibere (F) 21 adicio F^
exerpere F^ 1 m. 22 ista tracUtione F^ 1 m. 24 uale add, F
26 hanc epist, om. (II), primu$ edidit Scioppius in VerisimiUum l. 111 1 11
XX (XVrni) a. 399.
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