Letter 30: causes istius E amputare E 4 5 euuangeJiis B E 8 cognoscatis Ej E E 4 9-.

[This record contains no body text of the letter itself, only editorial apparatus and an editorial summary; the legible Latin is translated below, and the garbled critical apparatus is marked as such.] [Critical apparatus, partly garbled by OCR: "causae istius" E; "amputare" E 4; "in the gospels" B E^...; "you may learn" Ej E^ E 4; "...tem" corrected from "...ter", as it seems, B 2; "by the laws" written or rewritten by hand B 2; "of the truth" E 4. ...] Title: To Decoratus the patrician. He is not known to me from other sources. As is clear from the context of the letters, he was endowed with judicial authority. Compare the notes on letter 22,2, p. 68. Letters 29,3; 30; 31,1-2. He makes Sindula a partaker [informs Sindula] of the impossibility of settling definitively the case of Lucidus, since the opposing party was not present. As regards the question of Placidus's wife, fault being absent, she cannot fall under the force of the law.

causae istius E amputare E 4 5 euuangeJiis B E^ 8 cognoscatis Ej E^ E 4 9-tem] ex -ter corr. vid. B 2 legibus] 1 scrips. aut rescrips. B 2 ueritatis E 4 . Tit. Decorato patricio; Non aliis fontibus mihi notus. Ut e contextu litterarum patet iudiciaria potestate pollebat. Cf. notulas in ep. 22,2, p. 68. EPiSTtJEAE 29,3; 30; 31,1-2 Sindulae participem facit de impossibilitate definite solvendi cau¬ sam Lucidi, cum pars adversa praesens non fuerit. Quoad quaestionem uxoris Placidi, absente culpa, sub vi legis cadere non potest.