Letter 4026: The omen is favorable, and heaven confirms what we dared to hope.

May a favorable omen, arriving to strengthen your auspices, fortify the beginnings of your hoary dignity with divine counsels. May heavenly favor through you govern the lord of liberty, so that from the fountain of your breast there may flow to the ears of the prince what the heavenly rain has poured into you. Behold, the vows I owed to your beginnings I have declared, though in words compressed to narrow bounds. Remember the love and the covenant you promised, so that without loss from change the quaestorship may discharge the debt owed to me. Maintain toward me the disposition of your predecessor: let the promise of your dignity not be broken by a change of the persons of my lord. Be well, according to the desire of your suppliant, and amid the great proclamation of benefits receive these sparing words. For such is the custom of the fortunate and the nature of the better sort, that the riches of their tongue are surpassed by their deeds and what they bestow.

XXVI. ENNODIVS EVGENETI V. I. Faustum caelo omen adueniens auspicia uestra conroboret et tirocinia canae dignitatis suis muniant diuina consiliis. 1 in amicorum Pb 2 inmense B 3 si om. T 4 salnate B, salute L 5 consulite] finit add. B XXV. 12 ad B suaeculi B, saeculis V1 14 inpatientia me fort . 15 *abere B , dnlcedinem LTVb 17 quod] qui T sciens — retines om. Ll, add. in mg. m. ant . catnellom BPTVb 19 pręcor ex poęor L baiolum B 20 sna P utilitatis B Tb, utiliias LPTlV insBionns T 22 ut] 4 T s. l. m. 2 dampni LV fecerit T 28 restituat] flnit add. B XXVI. 26 u ̃ι J3, om. T 27 tyrocinia BLPV per uos supernus fauor regat dominum libertatis, ut ex pec* toris uestri fonte ad aures principis defluat quod in uobis aetherius imber infuderit. ecce quae debui uota rudimentis lieet coactis in artum sermonibus enarraui. uos mementote promissi amoris et foederis, ut sine mutationis dispendio debitum mihi quaestura dissoluat. tenete circa me animum decessoris: dignitatis uestrae pollicitatio non frangatur uariata personis domini mei. saluete pro desiderio supplicis et in magna bene. ficiorum promulgatione suscipite parca conloquia. talis enim est usus felicium et natura meliorum, ut linguae copias rebus et praestitis antecellant.