Letter 9008: After the customary greeting, let me come to a necessary request: my son's games are approaching, and we need to...
Salutationis honore praemisso snbtexo necessarinm postnlatum: filii nostri instat
edido; hnic eqnomm cnmlinm paranda nobilitas est. qnapropter ad Hispanias fide-
5 lissimos cnm copiosis snmptibns misimns , nt generosas qnadrigas snb diligentissima
lectione mercentnr; sed qnia veremnr, ne eqnomm transitum hiemis interventns ex-
cludat, qnaeso te, nt si necessitas postnlaverit, tribus aut qnattnor hibemis mensibus
pabnla illis in re tna pro numero iubeas ministrari, ut incipiente temperie sine vexa-
tione perveniant. praeterea adiumentum meis oro deceraas ad equoram coemptionem, 2
to si qnos in Arelatensi nrbe cnrsn et genere praestantes meoram cura reppererit. am-
plectenda est enim yicinae emptionis occasio, si eximinm aliquid casus obtnlerit.
stabit apud me iugis memoria beneficii tui , cum votivae editioni nostrae frateraa , ut
spero, cnra profuerit.
XXI a. 399.
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