De Impositione Manuum (Epigr. XXXI)
The Integrity of Blessing
The author contrasts the genuine act of laying on hands with the vanity of performing it indiscriminately.
Does the emblem of nurturing love not escape your right hand? And yet, it is better to lay hands on people of integrity than on the ignorant masses, as you are accustomed to doing. How much better is an imposition than an imposture!
Read the original Latin
Nec dextra te fugit almi amoris emblema? Atqui manus imponere integras praestat Quam, more vestro, imponere inscio vulgo. Quanto impositio melior est impostura!
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