Letter 9023: I ask that, having been admitted into your clientele, he may be glad both that my patronage has been of use to him...
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[End of a preceding letter:] ...has completed his terms of military service under our standards without giving offense, I ask that, having been received into your clientage, he may rejoice both that my patronage has been of profit to him and that yours has been added to it.
LVIII (LV).
To Caecilianus.
I do not refuse to intervene on behalf of just debts; for it is the mark of malice to reject an occasion for showing favor in such matters. To the people of Formiae, for the relief of their want, antiquity decreed a fixed measure of oil from Africa. They request of you a custom preserved over a long age, to which your eminent humanity ought to add dispatch.
LVIIII (LVI).
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Latin / Greek Original
praeteritam F^ cicatridem doloris praeteriti F^ 4 dej FF, om. [II) Nemesii] (/f), om. F
honoratissima F^ facnnda F^ 5 nunc F^ 6 iu manu trado uel reddo F^ de utroque
placere F^ roeorum F^ 7 eius ac litterarum om. F^ iiisi om. F^ 1 m, 8 uale add. F^»^
11 de] Pareuay om, [11) 13 non] lureius^ nuuo (//) 14 qua in re Leethu fautor
*»««««»«»«« liberis] (i7), fautor «««»»«*«»««beri8 {F) 17 nunc] luretuSf nec (//) 18 audieris] lurelut,
adiuueris {II)
23 receptam petitionem] /*, recepta est (//)
27 Quintiliano] (//], otn. F 28 approbatisque (//), et probatisque F3, ac probatis (r)Fi, atque
probatis F* 29 Asellus] F^, -a- F^, AsseUus (//), ansellus F^
LIBER Vrai. 253
stris militiae stipendia sine offensione confecerit , quaeso , ut admissus in clientelam IIF
tuam et meum sibi patrocinium profuisse et tuum accessisse laetetur.
LVni (LV).
AD CAECILIANVM. /T
& Intervenire pro iustis debitis non recuso; malitiae est euim repudiare locum gra-
tiae in his, Formianis ad egestatis levamen certum ex Africa olei
modum decrevit antiquitas. poscunt a te morem longa aetate servatum, cui debet
adicere celeritatem praestantis bumanitas.
LVim (LVI).
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