Letter 11031: It is fitting that those who have completed their military oaths should receive the rewards of victory — for long...

31. Concerning the chief clerk of the singulares [a corps of imperial guards/couriers] who is retiring from service. [1] It is fitting that those who are seen to have fulfilled their military oaths should attain the rewards of the palm, since long-continued toil claims for itself what untried nobility can scarcely manage to find. And therefore, since Urbicus is known to have completed the term of his office as chief clerk, let him approach, to adore the sacred purple, among the domestici and the protectores [household guards and bodyguards of the imperial corps], so that, made illustrious by venerable regard, he may rejoice to have been released from the watches of military duty.

XXXI. DE PRIMICERIO SINGULARIORUM QUI EGREDITUR. [1] Decet palmae praemia consequi, qui sacramentis militaribus videntur esse perfuncti, quia diutinus labor sibi vindicat quod inexperta vix potest invenire nobilitas. et ideo, quoniam Urbicus primiceriatus sui noscitur tempora peregisse, inter domesticos et protectores sacram purpuram adoraturus accedat, ut venerandis clarificatus aspectibus militaribus excubiis se gaudeat liberatum.