Et cum Theodosius ductor exercituum ille magnificus, oppressurus Firmum perniciosa coeptantem, venisset in Africam, et proscripti Romani rem mobilem (ut iussum est) scrutaretur, inter chartas eius inventa est et Meteri cuiusdam epistula, id continens Domino patrono Romano Meterius, et in fine post multa nihil ad rem pertinentia: Salutat te Palladius proiecticius, qui non aliam ob causam dicit se esse proiectum, nisi quod in causa Tripolitanorum apud aures sacras mentitus est.
And when Theodosius, that famous leader of armies, had come into Africa to put an end to the dangerous attempts of Firmus, and, as he had been ordered, examined the moveable property of the outlawed Romanus, there was found also among his papers the letter of one Meterius, containing the words, Meterius to Romanus his Lord and patron, and at the end, after much matter that would here be irrelevant: The disgraced Palladius salutes you, and says that he was deposed for no other reason than that in the cause of the people of Tripolis he spoke to the sacred ears what was not true.
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