Letter 9019: The memory of the former consul Petronius, whose home was in Ariminum [Rimini], requires me to defend his orphaned...

[...] let it be considered. The memory of Petronius, a man of consular rank, who had his household seat at Ariminum [Rimini], therefore demands of me that I defend his sons out of the love I bore by inheritance. Their dwelling is being adjudged to be occupied by soldiers as billets, and unless public authority comes to their aid, the house will suffer utter ruin. If, therefore, you grant anything to my intercession, by dispatching threatening letters to the magistrates and councils of the people of Ariminum, command that the lodgers be kept away from it and that the ancient security be restored to the household gods of these little children. For they are commanded to be under the guardianship of a judge, who are forsaken by their parents. Farewell. 49 (46).

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