1. GREAT is the beauty of your language, but that of your love is
still more apparent, for your letters manifest to me the bright colours
of your mind, blessed and most dear brother. The Lord give you His
Grace and Blessing, for in your letters I recognize your good wishes
rather than my good deserts. For what merits of mine can equal such
commendations as yours?
Love me, my brother, for I love you.
EPISTOLA V.
A.D. 380.
(See page 19.)
SENTENTIAM abs se in causa Indiciæ latam defendens, Syagrii
judicium arguit, quod legitima in eo forma non servata sit.
Maximum tragœdiæ auctorem apud se non comparuisse: Syagrium
inspectionem virgini contumeliosissimam decrevisse, cum alia,
unde judicari virgo debeat, suppetant: inspectionem incertam
atque inutilem; aliud enim obstetricum officium esse; non ergo
hac ratione causam decidendam; præsertim cum peperisse diceretur
Indicia. In quibus inspectio sit toleranda. Syagrium vanam
afferre excusationem: Maximum vere accusatorem esse. Postremo
accusatione ac testibus rursus vituperatis, refertur Marcellinæ
aliarumque pro Indicia testimonium, post quod judicium
Ambrosianum subjicitur.