Letter 9015: While you are busy relieving the hardships of the provincials, a heavier blow has fallen on the Apulians.
Dum provincialium mederis adversis et salutarem laborantibus manum porrigis,
gravior Apulos casus incessit, a quibus ob inanem famam fecunditatis frumenta pos- i5
cuntur et detrahenda provinciae et reip. usui non futura. quando enim in hiemem
vergente anno poterit maturari tantae frugis si igitur tibi suppetit, facul-
tates
xxvmiA.
itineris celeriter ad Campaniam promovendi, scire me fa- 2u
cito, ut te paulisper opperiar; aut si promissum maior causa mutavit, id ipsum noti-
tiae meae protinus pande, ut Symmachus noster diu in Formianis litoribus otiatus
propere mecum ad studia revertatur. vale.
XXX (XXVII).
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