Letter 9010: After the customary greeting, let me raise a pressing matter: my son's praetorian games are approaching and must be...
Domum nostram in apparatn esse Indornm. qnos deo invante filii mei praetura
deposcit, quantnm credo, didicisti. missnrns igitur ad Hispanias meoram aliqnos, qni
25 curales quadrigas ex omni gregnm nobilitate mercentnr, iam nunc in favorem praeter-
euntinm curam tuam provoco, ut illis et velocitas transeundi et evectionum praestetur
adiectio. haec interim pro tempore praelibavimns ; sed plnra tribues vel tuo provisa
studio vel illoram snggestione conperta.
tnor F^ / m., uel quatuor (F) mensibus hibernis F^, hiemis mensibus (JI) 8 teperie F^ / m.
perit F^ 1 m. 11 enim] (/7), om. F temptationis F 12 tui om. F^ 1 m., tui beneflcii F^ 2 m.
13 uale add. F
15 hane epiatulam om. (77); primus edidit Scioppius Verifim, 1111 11 Symmachus Vicario Hispa-
niarum F^ det$t nomen 17 emptionem] Seioppiui, emtation. F 19 factu] Seioppius^ facta F
sed imper promouerit F, fort, sed impetratione gratam tua cura promonerit
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