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To the Comes Privatarum.<br />

Letter CCCIII.<br />

You have, I think, been led to impose a contribution of mares 3261 on these people by<br />

false information on the part of the inhabitants. What is going on is quite unfair. It cannot<br />

but be displeasing to your excellency, <strong>and</strong> is distressing to me on account of my intimate<br />

connexion with the victims of the wrong. I have therefore lost no time in begging your<br />

Lordship not to allow these promoters of iniquity to succeed in their malevolence.<br />

3261 φοράδων τέλεσυα. “Recte Scultetum castigat Combefisius quod raptim vectigal reddiderit. At idem im-<br />

merito putat ob equarum possessionem tributum aliquod ejusmodi hominibus impositum fuisse. Perspicuum est<br />

equas ipsas iis, quibus patrocinatur Basilius, imperatas fuisse, idque in multæ magis quam in tributi loco; si quidem<br />

eos comes rei privatæ falsis criminationibus deceptus damnaverat. Sic etiam Greg. Naz., Ep. clxxxiv. Nemesium<br />

flectere conatur qui Valentiniano equarum multam ob aliquod delictum inflexerat. Nec mirum est in Cappadocia,<br />

quæ optimos equos alebat, ejusmodi multas impossitas fuisse.” Ben. note.<br />

To the Comes Privatarum.<br />

875

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