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CCCIII.
To the Comes Privatarum.
You have, I think, been
led to impose a contribution of mares3261
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τέλεσυα.
“Recte Scultetum castigat Combefisius quod raptim
vectigal reddiderit. At idem immerito putat ob equarum
possessionem tributum aliquod ejusmodi hominibus impositum
fuisse. Perspicuum est equas ipsas iis, quibus patrocinatur
Basilius, imperatas fuisse, idque in multæ magis quam in
tributi loco; si quidem eos comes rei privatæ falsis
criminationibus deceptus damnaverat. Sic etiam Greg. Naz.,
Ep. clxxxiv. Nemesium flectere conatur qui Valentiniano
equarum multam ob aliquod delictum inflexerat. Nec mirum est
in Cappadocia, quæ optimos equos alebat, ejusmodi multas
impossitas fuisse.” Ben. note. | on
these people by false information on the part of the inhabitants.
What is going on is quite unfair. It cannot but be displeasing to
your excellency, and is distressing to me on account of my intimate
connexion with the victims of the wrong. I have therefore lost no
time in begging your Lordship not to allow these promoters of iniquity
to succeed in their malevolence.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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