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To Himerius, the master.<br />

Letter CCLXXIV. 3230<br />

That my friendship <strong>and</strong> affection for the very reverend brother Hera began when I was<br />

quite a boy, <strong>and</strong> has, by God’s grace, continued up to my old age, no one knows better than<br />

yourself. For the Lord granted me the affection of your excellency at about the same time<br />

that He allowed me to become acquainted with Hera. He now needs your patronage, <strong>and</strong><br />

I therefore beseech <strong>and</strong> supplicate you to do a favour for the sake of our old affection, <strong>and</strong><br />

to heed the necessity under which we now lie. I beg you to make his cause your own, that<br />

he may need no other protection, but may return to me, successful in all that he is praying<br />

for. <strong>The</strong>n to the many kindnesses which I have received at your h<strong>and</strong>s I shall be able to add<br />

yet this one more. I could not claim any favour more important to myself, or one more<br />

nearly touching my own interests.<br />

3230 Of the same time as the preceding.<br />

To Himerius, the master.<br />

843

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