Letter 10024: The petition to the Emperor has been drafted and will be sent through the proper channels; I do not expect success...

In turn, month by month, the proceedings of the Senate and People are sent to the records-offices of Your Perpetuity, which will be able to show what the man of most exalted and illustrious memory, Praetextatus, contributed, whether to the most august order or to the people devoted to you, toward the credit of your age, O lords and emperors Valentinian, Theodosius, and Arcadius, renowned victors and triumphators, ever Augusti. But because you have specifically commanded by your sacred letters that, if any acts were performed by him at Rome in these assemblies, excerpts should be handed over to the imperial courier-agent, I have sent everything, in obedience to your divine orders: those things which, in his very presence, the ordinance of your venerable deliberations defined and the authority of the fathers approved; and besides these, I have added the things which he spoke before the common people, so as to summon all to a love of good times. Furthermore, the judgment of the citizens, which they passed on his virtue and innocence on his final day, I have specifically made known to the most distinguished man and illustrious Master of the Offices, with copies of the proceedings appended below, although it is necessary that everything, by the public conveyance and together with the other matters which are sent according to custom, should once more come to the knowledge of Your Serenity.