Ennodius of Pavia → Faustus

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The business of Julian — my kinsman and your devoted admirer — is laboring under the manifold machinations of Marcellinus, a man who, prepared to do nothing but complain, nonetheless distrusts the very integrity of the tribunal he invokes. He avoids the examinations he professes to desire.

For after Marcellinus is said to have presented some kind of writ before Genisa [a local official], the aforementioned petitioner — your suppliant Julian — promptly made his way to the hearing at the court of Milan and, for thirty or forty days, placed himself before the public judge in precisely the manner the law requires. He called Geuica himself to witness — the man who, it was maintained, had been duly appointed as the instigator of these proceedings — and pressed him to send his charge to the adjudication. He also took care to inform Lord Trasemundus [a Gothic official of standing in Ostrogothic Italy], as you will be able to verify from Trasemundus's own letters. But none of this availed against a man for whom, in this wretched affair, the only possible remedy is concealment.

On Julian's behalf I make this request — though with Your Magnificence, petitions are hardly a necessary instrument wherever the truth can make itself known — since Julian has transmitted to you every document relating to this matter, so that by your direction he may at last be delivered from disturbances of this kind.

My lord, while I discharge the duties of greeting that I owe you, I cherish the hope that you will, with the attentiveness that is so characteristic of you, cause the harassment inflicted by the aforesaid Marcellinus to be removed — and that you will relieve my own anxiety about the state of your health and fortunes with a letter in return.