Letter 9019: The memory of the former consul Petronius, whose home was in Ariminum [Rimini], requires me to defend his orphaned...
videatur. exigit igitur a me memoria Petronii ex consularibus, cui lar apud Ariminum
fuit, ut eius filios hereditario amore defendam. horum militaribus habi-
tanda decemitur, et ni publica succurrat auctoritas, extremum patietur excidium. si 15
quid igitur interventui meo tribues, datis ad Ariminensium magistratus atque ordines
minacibus litteris arceri ab ea hospites iubeatis et restituere penatibus parvulorum
priscam securitatem. in iudicis enim iubentur esse tutela, qui a parentibus dese-
runtur. vale.
xxxxvnn (xxxxvi). 20
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