Letter 7064: ...the family's fortunes have grown, and my lord and son Flavianus is enjoying the fruits of private leisure.

[The opening of this letter and the intervening text survive only in fragmentary, OCR-corrupted form interspersed with editorial apparatus; ...] to have grown by your advancements, and that the enjoyment of private leisure belongs to my lord and son Flavianus [...] [Letter 110, conclusion:] ...having received, therefore, a twofold assurance, I ought not to have waited to expect your letter on these matters, which I judged should be deferred out of modesty. Therefore I leave the measure of my joy for you to estimate, since you gauge its extent from your love toward us. But to these joys I wish those others also to be joined, which you remember were requested long ago concerning my son's praetorian games. For I am greatly astonished that the rescript has not yet smiled upon just and customary desires. And so in a second letter I have again entreated that most excellent man, the count, that the petitions, burdensome to no one but truly pleasing to me, in support of which the precedents of even the lesser magistrates likewise stand, he would graciously order to be carried into effect, as is his custom. But I hope that the beneficence of so great a man, whose pleasure it always is to grant great things beyond hope, will be rendered the readier, if, as I have frequently begged, it is prompted by your reminders. CXI. [111.] TO PATRUINUS. I would attend my brother Severus with a lengthy discourse, if he were seeking your friendship by a new approach, or if my talent were equal to his praise. I therefore spare your abundance and yield to your judgment, so that his diligence may be commended rather to your goodwill than to my letter. Farewell. CXII. [112; year 397?] TO PATRUINUS. Since the care of all who are mine is your especial concern, I take it for granted that your most intimate friendship can be unlocked to my son Arcentius, a man of senatorial rank [spectabilis], whom kinship joins to me, a friendship which both the distinction of his life and the antiquity of his family deservedly win for him. To these his own good qualities my prayers too are added, to increase the commendation, so that I plainly cannot doubt that both my testimony and your judgment will profit him the more abundantly. Farewell. CXIII. [113; year 398.]

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