Stelle Et dum hanc perlegans cartulam, cit...; (Epistolae (Alcuin) (784 - 804), Epp. 146 (p. 235-236)) [5646]

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Text Epistolae (Alcuin) (784 - 804) Alcuin of York
Quotation Et dum hanc perlegans cartulam, cito remitte alteram, ut sciam, quid acturus sit Aquila cum aviculis suis; vel quid Avaria faciat vel credat; vel quid romanorum nobilitas novi habeat adinventum; vel quid de Graeciae cibmilitatibus audieras; et an aliquas sanctorum reliquias tecum adtulisses, quibus posses consolari Albinum tuum.
Translation When you read this letter, quickly send another back, that I may know what the Eagle is going to do with his chicks, and how the conversion of the Huns is going, and what the Roman nobility are up to, and what you have heard about the leaders of Greecet, and whether you have brought any relics of the saints with you to console your Albinus. (Trans. Allott, no. 138, p. 143)
Summary Alcuin asks bishop Arn of Salzburg about news, for example what the Avaria does and believes, also what he hears about the Roman nobility and the Greek
Quotation source Epp. 146 (p. 235-236)
Temporal Coverage 798 - None
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