Emperor Valentinian
Valentinianus
emperor|321–375|Milan
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←ambrose milan #17←ambrose milan #18
From Ambrose of Milanc. 380
This Epistle was written when Symmachus sent his memorial to Valentinian II. St. Ambrose presses on the Emperor the consideration that it is his business to defend religion, and not superstition.
From Ambrose of Milanc. 380
Reply of St. Ambrose to the Memorial of Symmachus, in which after complimenting Valentinian he deals with three points of the Memorial. He replies to his opponent's personification of Rome in a singularly telling manner, and proves that the famine spoken of by Symmachus had nothing to do with the cessation of heathen rites.