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Letter LXXXVIII.2298
Without address on the subject of the exaction of
taxes.
Your excellency knows
better than any one else the difficulty of getting together the gold
furnished by contribution.2299
| 2299 χρυσίον
πραγματευτικόν,
Lat. aurum comparatitium. The gold collected for the
equipment of troops. Cod. Theod. vii. 6. 3. The
provinces of the East, with the exception of Osroene and Isauria,
contributed gold instead of actual equipment. The Ben. note
quotes a law of Valens that this was to be paid between Sept. 1 and
April 1, and argues thence that this letter may be definitely dated
in March, 372, and not long before Easter, which fell on April
8. | We have no
better witness to our poverty than yourself, for with your great
kindness you have felt for us, and, up to the present time, so far as
has lain within your power, have borne with us, never departing from
your own natural forbearance from any alarm caused by superior
authority. Now of the whole sum there is still something wanting,
and that must be got in from the contribution which we have recommended
to all the town. What I ask is, that you will grant us a little
delay, that a reminder may be sent to dwellers in the country, and most
of our magistrates are in the country. If it is possible for it
to be sent in short of as many pounds as those in which we are still
behind-hand, I should be glad if you would so arrange, and the amount
shall be sent later. If, however, it is absolutely necessary that
the whole sum should be sent in at once, then I repeat my first request
that we may be allowed a longer time of grace.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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