LETTER LXXXIV. 

A brief letter of assent and approval.

AMBROSE TO CYNEGIUS.

1. How ingenuous is the modesty with which you have commended yourself, in that you have consulted me concerning a matter which you did not approve, out of deference to your father that you might not injure piety, feeling safe that no reply could be made by me which was unbeseeming holy relationships.

2. But I have willingly taken upon me your burdens, and have reconciled, I hope, the niece to her uncle. Truly I am ignorant with what view he desired that she should become his daughter-in-law, changing his own character of uncle for that of father-in-law. I need not add more, lest this also should be a cause of confusion.

Farewell my son, and love us, for we also love you.

EPISTOLA LXXXIV.

CYNEGIUM  de consultatione sua commendat. 

AMBROSIUS CYNEGIO.

1. Quam ingenuo commendasti pudore, quia de eo consuleres, quod non probares, sed morem gereres parenti; ut pietatem non laederes, securus quod non aliud a me posset referri, nisi quod sanctas deceret necessitudines.

 1282B 2. Ego vero libenter tua in me onera suscepi, et avo neptem, ut opinor, refudi. Quam nescio plane qua opinione nurum sibi fieri desiderabat, ut avum socero mutaret. Plura non opus est, ne hoc quoque accedat ad verecundiam. Vale, fili, et nos dilige; quia nos quoque te diligimus.