Letter 9025: I repay everyone who gives me an occasion to write with the currency of a recommendation.
Omnibus, qui occasionem scriptionis inpertiunt, et commendationis quandam re-
pendo mercedem. nunc optimo viro Petrucio factum volo, quem scio hanc epistulam
non tam m sui commendationem quam mei officii gratia postulasse. cuius operam versa
vice munerandam putavi: poposcit litteras, ut tibi probaremur inpensius; ego contra
25 ideo scripsisse me fateor, ut tibi ille acceptior redderetur.
LXI (LVIU).
AD PACATVM. p
Vix adducor, ut credam, litteras meas saepe repetitas nihil Leontio remedii con-
tulisse; quia si nihil virium frequens interventus noster habuisset, desisteret suflFra-
30 gium meum totiens elusus optare. cum igitur apud me querellae istius fides dubia
sit, experiri volo, cui potissimum parti dubitatio mea debeat adplicari. est igitur in
2 sibi patrooinium] (J7), patrociniam gibi F tcoessisse] (//}Fi, accepisse F2.8 uale add, FLS
5 est] (Fjy om, {II) 6 laeunam jmneUs indieat (/Z), quae ipsa postulatl aequitas commendat nip-
pUt Scioppiua 8 praestautis] (/*), praesentis (//)
14 fortunae] KiessUng, fortuna (/7) 17 amici] 8u$e, amicis (//)
21 et om, {F) 23 in sui commendationem] ego, sui commendatione (/7) 24 muneraudam
putaui poposcerit {F), namerandam »»♦»«« poposcit (//) probaremur] ego, probaretur (//), probarer {f)
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