Letter 74: Our generous Lord has granted us once again to enjoy the feast and to send your excellency the festal greeting.
Letter 74
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To Urbanus.
It has been granted to us by our generous Lord once again to enjoy the feast and to send to your excellency the festal salutation. We pray that you may be well and prosperous, and share the ineffable and divine boon which to them that approach supplies the seeds of the blessings hoped for, and gives the symbols of the life and kingdom that have no end. These things we beseech the loving Lord to impart to you, for it is natural for friends to ask that their friends may be blessed.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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